The Two Bathers
Camille Pissarro
1895
Medium
Drypoint, etching, and aquatint, with burnishing, in black on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image/plate/sheet, sight: 17.6 × 12.6 cm (6 15/16 × 5 in.)
Classification
drypoint
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
229524
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...