La Roche-Guyon
Medium
etching
Dimensions
image: 27.4 × 22.2 cm · sheet: 43.5 × 32.8 cm
Classification
Department
Prints
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Delia E. Holden and L. E. Holden Funds
Accession Number
1976.20
Tags
maleJewish artists
About this artwork
A very early etching by the Impressionist artist Camille Pissarro, this view of the massive rocks at La Roche-Guyon reveals the artist’s painterly attitude toward printmaking. Using only the etched line and a layer of ink left on his printing plate's surface, Pissarro created a dramatic landscape filled with brilliant sunlight and soft shadows.