The Long Landscape (Paysage en long)
1879
Medium
etching and aquatint [posthumous impression]
Dimensions
plate: 11.5 x 39.4 cm (4 1/2 x 15 1/2 in.) sheet: 27.4 x 45.3 cm (10 13/16 x 17 13/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Print Purchase Fund (Rosenwald Collection)
Accession Number
1970.10.14
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...