Paysanne bêchant (Peasant Laboring)
1890
Medium
etching and aquatint in black touched with graphite on laid paper
Dimensions
plate: 15.9 x 11.8 cm (6 1/4 x 4 5/8 in.) sheet: 23 x 16.5 cm (9 1/16 x 6 1/2 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Martin and Liane W. Atlas
Accession Number
1995.23.1
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...