The Market
Camille Pissarro
c. 1895
Medium
Monotype on cream paper
Dimensions
Image: 13 × 18 cm (5 1/8 × 7 1/8 in.); Plate, mark not clear: 13 × 18 cm (5 1/8 × 7 1/8 in.); Sheet: 15.5 × 20.3 cm (6 1/8 × 8 in.)
Classification
monotype
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
69704
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...