Chestnut Vendors (Marchands de marrons)
Camille Pissarro
1878
Medium
drypoint on laid paper
Dimensions
plate: 20.7 x 16.3 cm (8 1/8 x 6 7/16 in.) sheet: 30 x 21.6 cm (11 13/16 x 8 1/2 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1946.21.152
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...