CAMILLE PISSARRO
(1830-1903)
Pissarro was the most prolific of the Impressionist printmakers, producing around 200 etchings and lithographs between 1863 and 1902. In comparison, DEGAS engraved sixty-five plates, RENOIR twenty-four and CEZANNE only three. Pissarro generally made the prints for himself and they were printed on scraps of paper that came to hand in his studio. While Pissarro would exhibit his prints alongside his paintings, he did not ask more than eighty francs for his etchings. He was a self-taught etcher, which can be detected in his approach and experiments in etching.
Sente des Pouilleux à Pontoise was intended for the publication Le Jour et la Nuit, which had been initiated by Edgar DEGAS, but only one edition was ever published.
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