Chemin sous bois à Pontoise
1879
Medium
Aquatint and etching
Dimensions
Plate: 6 1/4 × 8 1/2 in. (15.9 × 21.6 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Charles and Jessie Price Gift, 2017
Accession Number
2017.123
Tags
Art Historical Context
Step into the serene woodlands of 19th-century France with Camille Pissarro's *Chemin sous bois à Pise* (1879), a aquatint and etching a shaded path winding through dense trees. Pissarro, a founding father of Impressionism, spent much of the 1870s in the rural village of Pontoise northwest of Paris, where he painted and printed everyday landscapes to evoke the fleeting effects of light and atmosphere. work reflects his deep affinity for the French countryside, transforming a simple forest trail into a study of dappled sunlight and natural textures. Printed in aquatint—a technique Pissarro mas...
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...