Haymaking at Éragny
Camille Pissarro
1892
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
65.5 × 81.3 cm (25 3/4 × 32 in.); Framed: 85.1 × 101.6 × 8.9 cm (33 1/2 × 40 × 3 1/2 in.)
Classification
oil on canvas
Department
Painting and Sculpture of Europe
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
87000
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...