Trees and Meadows at Eragny
Camille Pissarro
1895/1900
Medium
black chalk on originally pale pink laid paper
Dimensions
overall: 30.8 x 47.5 cm (12 1/8 x 18 11/16 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Helen Porter and James T. Dyke
Accession Number
2006.113.1
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...