Herding the Cows at Dusk (Vachère le soir)
Camille Pissarro
c. 1890
Medium
monotype on laid paper
Dimensions
sheet: 15.5 x 23.5 cm (6 1/8 x 9 1/4 in.) plate: 12.7 x 23.5 cm (5 x 9 1/4 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Print Purchase Fund (Rosenwald Collection)
Accession Number
1967.19.1
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...