Woman at a Well
1891
Medium
Etching and aquatint on laid paper; second state of three
Dimensions
sheet: 12 1/2 x 8 1/8 in. (31.8 x 20.6 cm) plate: 9 1/4 x 7 11/16 in. (23.5 x 19.5 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1993
Accession Number
1993.1055
Tags
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...