View of Pontoise
Camille Pissarro
1885
Medium
Etching, aquatint, and drypoint in black on cream Japanese paper
Dimensions
Image/plate: 16 × 24.5 cm (6 5/16 × 9 11/16 in.); Sheet: 40 × 33.5 cm (15 3/4 × 13 1/4 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
86975
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...