The Woman on the Road
1879, printed 1923
Medium
Aquatint, soft ground etching, and etching, with scraping and drypoint, in black on cream laid paper
Dimensions
Image/plate: 15.6 × 20.9 cm (6 3/16 × 8 1/4 in.); Sheet: 24.2 × 32 cm (9 9/16 × 12 5/8 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
36285
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...