Baigneuses
Camille Pissarro
c. 1895
Medium
lithograph (zinc) in black on chine collé
Dimensions
image: 13.4 x 20.2 cm (5 1/4 x 7 15/16 in.) sheet: 26.8 x 36.3 cm (10 9/16 x 14 5/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Ruth B. Benedict
Accession Number
1994.60.49
About the Artist
Camille Pissarro · 1831–1903
Camille Pissarro (1830-1903) stands as the patriarch of Impressionism, the only artist to exhibit in all eight Impressionist exhibitions and a mentor whose influence shaped the trajectory of modern art. Born Jacob Abraham Camille Pissarro on the Caribbean island of St. Thomas to a Jewish-Portuguese merchant family, he abandoned the family business to pursue painting, eventually settling in Paris i...