Woman in the Kitchen Garden
Camille Pissarro
c. 1880
Medium
Etching in black with plate tone on cream laid paper
Dimensions
Image/plate: 24.8 × 16.9 cm (9 13/16 × 6 11/16 in.); Sheet: 28 × 22 cm (11 1/16 × 8 11/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
55786
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...