Fan Mount: The Cabbage Gatherers
Camille Pissarro
ca. 1878–79
Medium
Gouache on silk
Dimensions
6 1/2 x 20 1/2 in. (16.5 x 52.1 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
European Paintings
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Leonora Brenauer Bequest, in memory of her father, Joseph B. Brenauer, 1994
Accession Number
1994.105
Tags
VegetablesWomenAgricultureWorkingFarms
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...