The Louvre, Afternoon, Rainy Weather
1900
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 66.68 × 81.6 cm (26 1/4 × 32 1/8 in.) framed: 93.66 × 109.86 × 10.16 cm (36 7/8 × 43 1/4 × 4 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CF
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Edward C. and Mary Walker Collection)
Accession Number
2014.136.59
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...