Woman at the Gate
1889
Medium
Drypoint and etching on blue laid paper; ninth state of ten
Dimensions
sheet: 10 3/8 x 7 3/4 in. (26.4 x 19.7 cm) plate: 6 3/16 x 4 3/16 in. (15.7 x 10.6 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift from an Anonymous Donor, 1917
Accession Number
17.24.2
Tags
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...