The Gardener - Old Peasant with Cabbage
Camille Pissarro
1883-1895
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 81.5 x 65 cm (32 1/16 x 25 9/16 in.) framed: 106.7 x 90.5 x 9.5 cm (42 x 35 5/8 x 3 3/4 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CF
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon
Accession Number
1994.59.6
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...