The Stone Bridge at Rouen
Camille Pissarro
1887
Medium
Soft ground etching and drypoint in black on tan laid paper
Dimensions
Image/plate: 14.9 × 19.6 cm (5 7/8 × 7 3/4 in.); Sheet: 26.8 × 36.2 cm (10 9/16 × 14 5/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
192899
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...