The Street of the Grand Clock, Rouen
1885
Medium
Etching and aquatint on beige laid paper (Van Gelder); third state
Dimensions
sheet: 14 7/16 x 10 13/16 in. (36.7 x 27.5 cm) plate: 7 5/8 x 5 3/4 in. (19.3 x 14.6 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of W. L. Andrews, 1917
Accession Number
17.70.1
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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...