Woman Haymaker at Éragny
Camille Pissarro
1897
Medium
Etching in black on cream wove paper (discolored to brown)
Dimensions
Image/plate: 20.5 × 15 cm (8 1/8 × 5 15/16 in.); Sheet: 22.4 × 17.2 cm (8 7/8 × 6 13/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
215415
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...