Woman Emptying a Wheelbarrow
Camille Pissarro
1880
Medium
Aquatint and drypoint in black on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 31.7 × 23 cm (12 1/2 × 9 1/16 in.); Plate: 32 × 23.3 cm (12 5/8 × 9 3/16 in.); Sheet: 45.7 × 33.3 cm (18 × 13 1/8 in.)
Classification
aquatint
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
80614
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...