Portrait: Lucien Pissarro
Camille Pissarro
1874
Medium
Lithograph in black on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 21.6 × 28.4 cm (8 9/16 × 11 3/16 in.); Sheet: 27.9 × 44.4 cm (11 × 17 1/2 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
9661
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...