Artist: Camille Pissarro (1830 – 1903)
Title: La Faneuses (Haymakers)
Medium: Etching printed in Bistre on cream laid paper.
Edition: Limited to 1000 examples
Framed Dimensions: Approximately 16 x 18 inches
Framing: This piece has been professionally matted and framed using all new materials.
Etching depicting three women working in a field of hay. The central women in the foreground is holding a fork and lifting up hay. The other two women to the right of the print, are facing away. In the background there is tree and a village.
Camille Pissarro (1830 – 1903) was a Danish-French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter born on the island of St Thomas (now in the US Virgin Islands, but then in the Danish West Indies). His importance resides in his contributions to both Impressionism and Post-Impressionism. Pissarro studied from great forerunners, including Gustave Courbet and Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot. He later studied and worked alongside Georges Seurat and Paul Signac when he took on the Neo-Impressionist style at the age of 54.