Cowherd
Camille Pissarro
ca. 1899
Medium
Lithograph on pink/gray chine collé; only state
Dimensions
sheet: 14 3/16 x 10 9/16 in. (36 x 26.9 cm) plate: 5 1/8 x 4 7/16 in. (13 x 11.3 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1922
Accession Number
22.60.16
Tags
WomenCowsPastoral
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...