Peasant Woman Churning Milk
Camille Pissarro
c. 1896
Medium
Lithograph in black on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 24.3 × 16.6 cm (9 5/8 × 6 9/16 in.); Sheet: 37.8 × 27.3 cm (14 15/16 × 10 3/4 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
192878
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...