Promenade à Rouen: Cours Boieldieu
Camille Pissarro
1884/96, printed 1896
Medium
Etching and drypoint in black on buff laid paper
Dimensions
Image/plate: 19.8 × 14.8 cm (7 13/16 × 5 7/8 in.); Sheet: 37 × 27.3 cm (14 5/8 × 10 3/4 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
64613
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...