Goose Girl (Gardeuse d'oies)
Camille Pissarro
1888
Medium
etching and drypoint
Dimensions
plate: 14 x 19.7 cm (5 1/2 x 7 3/4 in.) sheet: 27 x 35.5 cm (10 5/8 x 14 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1950.17.238
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...