Woman on the Road (La femme sur la route)
Camille Pissarro
1879
Medium
etching and aquatint with drypoint [posthumous impression]
Dimensions
plate: 15.6 x 21 cm (6 1/8 x 8 1/4 in.) sheet: 22.6 x 27.5 cm (8 7/8 x 10 13/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
Accession Number
1974.64.1
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...