Wooded Lane at Pontoise
Camille Pissarro
1879
Medium
Aquatint with etching in black on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image/plate: 16.1 × 21.3 cm (6 3/8 × 8 7/16 in.); Sheet: 20.3 × 27 cm (8 × 10 11/16 in.)
Classification
aquatint
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
12260
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...