The Market at Gisors; Rue Cappeville
c. 1894
Medium
Etching in black, with watercolor, on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 17 × 12 cm (6 3/4 × 4 3/4 in.); Plate: 19.9 × 14 cm (7 7/8 × 5 9/16 in.); Sheet: 29.7 × 20.7 cm (11 3/4 × 8 3/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
112040
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...