Beggar with Crutch
1897
Medium
Lithograph in black on violet laid paper, laid down on white wove paper (chine collé)
Dimensions
Image: 25 × 30.8 cm (9 7/8 × 12 3/16 in.); Primary support: 25 × 30.7 cm (9 7/8 × 12 1/8 in.); Secondary support: 31.6 × 45.1 cm (12 1/2 × 17 13/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
88513
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...