Wooded Lane at Pontoise
Camille Pissarro
1879
Medium
Aquatint and etching in black on off-white wove card
Dimensions
Image/plate: 16.2 × 21.3 cm (6 7/16 × 8 7/16 in.); Sheet: 22.5 × 32 cm (8 7/8 × 12 5/8 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
12264
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...