Still Life with Apples and Pitcher
Camille Pissarro
1872
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
18 1/4 x 22 1/4 in. (46.4 x 56.5 cm)
Classification
Paintings
Department
European Paintings
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Bernhard Gift, by exchange, 1983
Accession Number
1983.166
Tags
ApplesStill LifePitchers
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...