The Houses of Parliament, London
Camille Pissarro
c. 1897
Medium
Lithograph in black on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 14.6 × 22.4 cm (5 3/4 × 8 7/8 in.); Stone: 18 × 29 cm (7 1/8 × 11 7/16 in.); Sheet: 27.3 × 38 cm (10 3/4 × 15 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
192879
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...