The Maid Shopping
1888
Medium
Etching and drypoint with plate tone in black on cream laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 19.3 × 13.3 cm (7 5/8 × 5 1/4 in.); Plate: 19.7 × 13.8 cm (7 13/16 × 5 7/16 in.); Sheet: 28.5 × 22.5 cm (11 1/4 × 8 7/8 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
192880
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...