Peasants Carrying Sticks (Paysannes portant des fagots)
Camille Pissarro
1896
Medium
lithograph (zinc) on pink Chine colle paper
Dimensions
image: 21 x 28.5 cm (8 1/4 x 11 1/4 in.) sheet: 31.7 x 45 cm (12 1/2 x 17 11/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1951.10.110
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...