Marketplace in Pontoise
1886
Medium
Graphite, pen and black-gummed ink on buff wove paper (glossy on verso); right margin torn from notebook
Dimensions
6 5/8 in. × 5 in. (16.8 × 12.7 cm) Framed: 21 1/4 × 16 1/4 in. (54 × 41.3 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Robert Lehman Collection
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
Accession Number
1975.1.679
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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...