Peasant Woman (recto); Boy with a Fishing Pole (verso)
Camille Pissarro
n.d.
Medium
Graphite, with watercolor (recto), and graphite (verso), on cream wove paper
Dimensions
30.6 × 15.8 cm (12 1/16 × 6 1/4 in.)
Classification
graphite
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
113886
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...