Vegetable Market at Pontoise (Marché aux légumes á Pontoise)
Camille Pissarro
1891
Medium
etching and aquatint (zinc)
Dimensions
plate: 25.5 x 20.1 cm (10 1/16 x 7 15/16 in.) sheet: 39 x 29 cm (15 3/8 x 11 7/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Print Purchase Fund (Rosenwald Collection)
Accession Number
1966.9.2
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...