Market in Pointoise
c. 1895
Medium
Lithograph in black on cream wove paper, laid down on ivory wove paper (chine collé)
Dimensions
Image/primary support: 30.8 × 22.7 cm (12 3/16 × 8 15/16 in.); Secondary support: 43.9 × 31.6 cm (17 5/16 × 12 1/2 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
223872
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...