Paul Cézanne
Camille Pissarro
1874, printed 1920
Medium
Etching in black on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image/plate: 27 × 21.5 cm (10 11/16 × 8 1/2 in.); Sheet: 46.5 × 29.7 cm (18 5/16 × 11 3/4 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
55790
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...