Antique French Etching Aquatint Drypoint "Epos du Dimanche dans le Bois" #5 of Edition 18 Camille Pissarro 1891

An important etching and aquatint on black on laid paper, by Camille Pissarro (1830-1903) "Repos du Dimanche dans le Bois" (A Peaceful Sunday in the Woods), 1891. A numbered Edition # 5 of 18, a superb, richly-inked crisp impression, in excellent condition.

Only a very few impressions of the first state are known, and only one impression is known of the second state, in which some shading lines were added. The third state is known in about 10 impressions. The final edition was printed in 18 proofs, (each stamped and numbered) of which this is one of those editions and numbered "5/18", with pissarro's initials lower left in the etching. After these 18 proofs were produced the cancelled zinc plate was given to the New York Public Library.
This impression is from this final edition of 18 proofs, 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 18 and not a later printing, this etching is accompanied with a C.O.A.

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

9.5 inches high × 11.75 inches wide × 1.5 inches deep

Metric

high × wide x deep

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