Woman Sitting by a Pond

c. 1874

Camille Pissarro

(French, 1830–1903)

Culture

France

Medium

Pen lithograph

Measurements

Sheet: 34.7 x 27.5 cm (13 11/16 x 10 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Karl B. Goldfield Trust 2024.58

Catalogue raisonné

Delteil/Cailac 138

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Location

Not on view

Did You Know?

The stark monochromatic tonality of this print recalls Pissarro’s earlier involvement with Barbizon School landscape and those artists’ use of cliché verre, a hybrid photographic process that produced a similar appearance.

Description

Although best known for his paintings, Camille Pissarro was also an important and inventive printmaker. This work was created during a period in which he was experimenting extensively with transfer lithography. Rather than drawing directly on a stone, Pissarro produced a pen and ink study that was transferred to the printing surface, allowing the aesthetic of drawn lines and the texture of the paper to be preserved. Like many of his lithographs, Pissarro printed Woman Sitting by a Pond in only two impressions rather than a formal edition.