Groupe de paysans (Group of Peasants)
c. 1899
Medium
chine collé lithograph in black on Ingres de couleur paper
Dimensions
image: 12.9 x 10.5 cm (5 1/16 x 4 1/8 in.) support: 35.6 x 26.5 cm (14 x 10 7/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Martin and Liane Atlas, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art
Accession Number
1991.108.1
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...