Chemin sous bois à Pontoise

Chemin sous bois à Pontoise

Camille Pissarro

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Pissarro used a mixture of aquatint and etched line to create the effect of dappled light in a wooded landscape in this print. The work dates from a seminal year in the history of nineteenth-century printmaking, when Pissarro worked closely with Edgar Degas and Mary Cassatt to experiment with intaglio techniques, exploring the aesthetic possibilities for making Impressionist prints.

Drawings and Prints

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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The Department’s vast collection of works on paper comprises approximately 21,000 drawings, 1.2 million prints, and 12,000 illustrated books created in Europe and the Americas from about 1400 to the present day. Since its foundation in 1916, the Department has been committed to collecting a wide range of works on paper, which includes both pieces that are incredibly rare and lauded for their aesthetic appeal, as well as material that is more popular, functional, and ephemeral. The broad scope of the department’s collecting encourages questions of connoisseurship as well as those pertaining to function and context, and demonstrates the vital role that prints, drawings, and illustrated books have played throughout history.