La Roche-Guyon

Description

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.

Provenance

(R. M. Light and Co., Santa Barbara, CA, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH) (?-1976); Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (1976-)

La Roche-Guyon

Camille Pissarro

1866

Accession Number

1976.20

Medium

etching

Dimensions

Image: 27.4 x 22.2 cm (10 13/16 x 8 3/4 in.); Plate: 31.8 x 23.9 cm (12 1/2 x 9 7/16 in.); Sheet: 43.5 x 32.8 cm (17 1/8 x 12 15/16 in.)

Classification

Print

Museum

The Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, United States

Credit Line

Delia E. Holden and L. E. Holden Funds