Woman at the Gate
Camille Pissarro
1889
Medium
Etching, aquatint, and drypoint in black on green-blue laid paper
Dimensions
Image/plate: 16 × 11.2 cm (6 5/16 × 4 7/16 in.); Sheet: 20.1 × 16.3 cm (7 15/16 × 6 7/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
3346
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...