Steamboats in the Port of Rouen
Camille Pissarro
1896
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
18 x 21 1/2 in. (45.7 x 54.6 cm)
Classification
Paintings
Department
European Paintings
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Arthur J. Neumark, 1958
Accession Number
58.133
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
RiversBoats
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...