Grandmother: The Artist's Mother
Camille Pissarro
1889
Medium
Etching and aquatint in black on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image/plate: 17.4 × 25.6 cm (6 7/8 × 10 1/8 in.); Sheet: 23.7 × 31 cm (9 3/8 × 12 1/4 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
38174
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...