The Market at Gisors; Rue Cappeville
Camille Pissarro
c. 1894
Medium
Color etching on ivory laid China paper
Dimensions
Image/plate: 20.4 × 14.2 cm (8 1/16 × 5 5/8 in.); Sheet: 27.4 × 20.2 cm (10 13/16 × 8 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
70256
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...