Wooded Landscape at L'Hermitage, Pontoise (Paysage sous bois, a L'Hermitage, Pontoise)
Camille Pissarro
1879
Medium
aquatint, soft-ground, and drypoint on Japanese paper
Dimensions
plate: 22 x 27 cm (8 11/16 x 10 5/8 in.) sheet: 27 x 35.8 cm (10 5/8 x 14 1/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1949.5.486
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...