Twilight with Haystacks
Camille Pissarro
1879
Medium
Aquatint, with etching, in black on white wove paper
Dimensions
Image/plate: 10.3 × 18.1 cm (4 1/16 × 7 3/16 in.); Sheet: 17 × 24.7 cm (6 3/4 × 9 3/4 in.)
Classification
aquatint
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
80616
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...