Church and Farm at Éragny
Camille Pissarro
1895
Medium
Etching and drypoint in black on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image/plate: 15.5 × 24.3 cm (6 1/8 × 9 5/8 in.); Sheet: 25.1 × 32.3 cm (9 15/16 × 12 3/4 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
74140
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...