Women Tossing the Hay
Camille Pissarro
1890, printed 1906
Medium
Etching in dark brown on cream laid paper
Dimensions
Image/plate: 19.1 × 13.4 cm (7 9/16 × 5 5/16 in.); Sheet: 24.9 × 19 cm (9 13/16 × 7 1/2 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
28846
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...