The Cabbage Field (Le Champ de choux)
c. 1880, printed posthumously
Medium
softground etching with open-bite tone on laid paper
Dimensions
plate: 24.7 x 16.8 cm (9 3/4 x 6 5/8 in.) sheet: 31.5 x 24 cm (12 3/8 x 9 7/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1963.11.175
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...