Woman Mending
Camille Pissarro
1895
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
65.4 × 54.4 cm (25 5/8 × 21 3/8 in.); Framed: 87.7 × 75 × 10.2 cm (34 1/2 × 29 1/2 × 4 in.)
Classification
oil on canvas
Department
Painting and Sculpture of Europe
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
11312
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...