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Collection Online as of December 19, 2025

Print in black ink on beige paper of a market crowded with people, a central figure with a basket over their right arm stepping forward and looking to their side at another figure, the back of which we can see sitting in the lower right corner. Behind the central figure, two small animals face off with a larger crowd, some in top-hats and one in a bonnet, behind. Brief lines suggest stalls in the background.

At the Market

late 1800s

Camille Pissarro

(French, 1830–1903)
France, 19th century
monotype
Sheet: 31 x 25 cm (12 3/16 x 9 13/16 in.); Image: 22.5 x 16 cm (8 7/8 x 6 5/16 in.)
Dudley P. Allen Fund 1925.1050
Location: Not on view

Description

Pissarro probably learned the technique of monotype from his friend Edgar Degas. Although it allowed him to work in a spontaneous and expressive way, the medium never played a significant role in his work.
  • Inventive Impressions: 18th- and 19-Century French Prints. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 26-October 28, 2001).
    The Cleveland Museum of Art; 8/26/01-10/28/01. "Inventive Impressions: 18th- and 19th-Century French Prints".
  • {{cite web|title=At the Market|url=false|author=Camille Pissarro|year=late 1800s|access-date=19 December 2025|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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