Women Tossing the Hay
Camille Pissarro
1890, printed 1906
Medium
Etching in dark brown on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image/plate: 19.8 × 13.4 cm (7 13/16 × 5 5/16 in.); Sheet: 31.6 × 24 cm (12 1/2 × 9 1/2 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
104296
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...