La Roche-Guyon
1866
Camille Pissarro
Camille Pissarro (French, 1830–1903)
Prints
La Roche-Guyon, 1866. Camille Pissarro (French, 1830–1903). Etching; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Delia E. Holden and L. E. Holden Funds 1976.20 A very early etching by the Impressionist artist Camille Pissarro, this view of the massive rocks at La Roche-Guyon reveals the artist’s painterly attitude toward printmaking. Using only the etched line and a layer of ink left on his printing plate's surface, Pissarro created a dramatic landscape filled with brilliant sunlight and soft shadows. Camille Pissarro favored rural life and lived in the small village of La Roche-Guyon during the 1860s, when this print was made.
- Maker/Artist
- Pissarro, Camille
- Classification
- Formatted Medium
- etching
- Medium
- etching
- Inscribed
- Inscription: signed, at lower right, in plate: C. Pissarro; inscribed, in pencil, at lower left: epreuve d'artiste
- Departments
- Prints
- Accession Number
- 1976.20
- Credit Line
- Delia E. Holden and L. E. Holden Funds
- Exhibitions
- Year in Review, 1976, Camille Pissarro: The Unexplored Impressionist, The Impressionist Aesthetic, The Graphic Art of the Barbizon School, Nature Sublime: Landscapes from the 19th Century
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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