The Shepherd's Return
Camille Pissarro
1889
Medium
Etching in red-brown on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image/plate: 7.6 × 10.9 cm (3 × 4 5/16 in.); Sheet: 15.8 × 23.8 cm (6 1/4 × 9 3/8 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
93615
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...