Bathers Wrestling (Baigneuses luttants)
Camille Pissarro
c. 1896
Medium
lithograph
Dimensions
plate: 18 x 26.4 cm (7 1/16 x 10 3/8 in.) sheet: 27.2 x 38 cm (10 11/16 x 14 15/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1944.5.129
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...