Peasant Girl with a Straw Hat
Camille Pissarro
1881
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 73.34 × 59.53 cm (28 7/8 × 23 7/16 in.) framed: 90.17 x 75.88 x 6.99 cm (35 1/2 x 29 7/8 x 2 3/4 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CF
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection
Accession Number
1970.17.52
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...