View of Pontoise (Vue de Pontoise)
Camille Pissarro
1885
Medium
etching and aquatint
Dimensions
plate: 15.7 x 24.4 cm (6 3/16 x 9 5/8 in.) sheet: 27.2 x 36.4 cm (10 11/16 x 14 5/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Print Purchase Fund (Ailsa Mellon Bruce)
Accession Number
1974.27.4
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...