Woman Emptying a Wheelbarrow
Camille Pissarro
1880
Medium
Drypoint in black with plate tone on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image/plate: 31.8 × 23.3 cm (12 9/16 × 9 3/16 in.); Sheet: 36.5 × 27.2 cm (14 3/8 × 10 3/4 in.)
Classification
drypoint
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
109291
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...