Woman Sitting by a Pond (c. 1874): Art, History and Details

Woman Sitting by a Pond (c. 1874) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Camille Pissarro (French, 1830–1903).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

Although best known for his paintings, Camille Pissarro was also an important and inventive printmaker. This work was created during a period in which he was experimenting extensively with transfer lithography. Rather than drawing directly on a stone, Pissarro produced a pen and ink study that was transferred to the printing surface, allowing the aesthetic of drawn lines and the texture of the paper to be preserved. Like many of his lithographs, Pissarro printed Woman Sitting by a Pond in only two impressions rather than a formal edition.

Object facts

• Title: Woman Sitting by a Pond
• Date: c. 1874
• Creator attribution: Camille Pissarro (French, 1830–1903)
• Culture: France
• Type: Print
• Technique: Pen lithograph
• Dimensions: Sheet: 34.7 x 27.5 cm (13 11/16 x 10 13/16 in.)
• Collection: PR - Lithograph
• Department: Prints
• Accession number: 2024.58

A detail from the museum

The stark monochromatic tonality of this print recalls Pissarro’s earlier involvement with Barbizon School landscape and those artists’ use of cliché verre, a hybrid photographic process that produced a similar appearance.

Collection credit

Karl B. Goldfield Trust

View the collection record

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