Bridge in Rouen: Pont Corneille
1896
Medium
Lithograph in black on cream laid paper, laid down on off-white laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 21.8 × 29.9 cm (8 5/8 × 11 13/16 in.); Primary support: 21.8 × 29.9 cm (8 5/8 × 11 13/16 in.); Secondary support: 31.5 × 44.8 cm (12 7/16 × 17 11/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
18695
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...