Antique Etching Aquatint "Vachère au Bord de L'Eau" Edition # 75 of Edition 100 by Camille Pissarro 1890

An important etching and aquatint in black on laid paper, by Camille Pissarro (1830-1903), "Vachere au Bord de l'Eau" (cowherder at the water’s edge) 8th state numbered Edition # 75 of 100, 1890 and official stamp lower left. A superb, richly-inked crisp impression, in excellent condition.

Pissarro began working on this image in 1890. Delteil describes how impressions of the first seven states of the print are extremely rare, infact unique proofs! The eighth state, which this is an etching is a fine example of, was produced first in a numbered set of 10 impressions and then an additional 100 impressions published in the May 1st, 1904 publication of the 'Gazette des Beaux-Arts'.​​​ This impression is from this final edition of 100. 
The etching is presented in a custom white oak frame, with twin colored acid free matting and protected behind Museum Glass. Guaranteed to be of the final sanctioned edition of 100 and not a later printing, this etching accompanied with a C.O.A.

7.75 x 5 inches, plate
11 x 7.88 inches, sheet
12 x 9, inches, frame

Jacob Abraham Camille Pissarro (10th July 1830 – 13th November 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.
In 1873 he helped establish a collective society of fifteen aspiring artists, becoming the "pivotal" figure in holding the group together and encouraging the other members. Art historian John Rewald called Pissarro the "dean of the Impressionist painters", not only because he was the oldest of the group, but also "by virtue of his wisdom and his balanced, kind, and warmhearted personality". Paul Cézanne said "he was a father for me. A man to consult and a little like the good Lord", and he was also one of Paul Gauguin's masters. Pierre-Auguste Renoir referred to his work as "revolutionary", through his artistic portrayals of the "common man", as Pissarro insisted on painting individuals in natural settings without "artifice or grandeur".
Pissarro is the only artist to have shown his work at all eight Paris Impressionist exhibitions, from 1874 to 1886. He "acted as a father figure not only to the Impressionists" but to all four of the major Post-Impressionists, Cézanne, Seurat, Gauguin, and van Gogh.

Imperial

12 inches high × 9 inches wide × 1.5 inches deep

Metric

high × wide x deep

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