Artist: Camille Pissarro (French, 1830-1903)
Title: Petite rue nationale à Rouen (Little national street in Rouen)
Size/Dimensions: 8 x 5.5 inches
Frame type/size: black painted wood framed, matted, behind glass 12 x 14 inches
Medium: Etching on paper
Date created or painted: unknown
Signed: Estate stamp lower left
Numbered: Pencil #10/13 lower right
Provenance: Millon et Associés, Paris, France 
Reference: Delteil 122. Definitive state, posthumous printing of 13
Please note that the etching is sagging slightly within the frame, which is visible in the photos. This can be adjusted easily but as we do not have a professional framer in house, we haven't made the adjustment.
 
One of the fathers of Impressionism, Camille Pissarro studied with Courbet and Corot.  When he took on the Neo-Impressionist style at the age of 54, he worked with Seurat and Signac.  Cezanne said, “he was a father for me,” calling him “the first impressionist.” Renoir called his work “revolutionary.” Pissarro was the only artist who exhibited at all eight of the Impressionist exhibits; in fact, he is largely responsible for organizing the group to begin with. He acted as a father figure not only to the Impressionists, but to the major Post Impressionists, Seurat, Cézanne, Van Gogh and Gauguin. Of his first 1500 paintings, all but 40 were destroyed in the Franco-Prussian War, many of which were used by soldiers as floor mats to keep mud off their boots, thus destroying any evidence of the development of his Impressionist style. Ironically, up to and at the first Impressionist exhibition, his work was criticized as vulgar for showing muddy and dirty settings. An outspoken anarchist, he published drawings and prints showing the problems with government. Although Pissarro sold few works during his lifetime, today his works can be seen in every major art museum around the world. Pissarro had several descendants who became artists, including sons Lucien, George-Manzana, Ludovic Rodo, Paulémile, grandson Hughes Claude, granddaughter Orovida, and great granddaughter Lelia.