Gathering Potatoes (Recolte de pommes de terre)
Camille Pissarro
1886
Medium
drypoint and aquatint
Dimensions
plate: 27.5 x 21.9 cm (10 13/16 x 8 5/8 in.) sheet: 47.2 x 34.5 cm (18 9/16 x 13 9/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1946.21.151
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...