Camille Pissarro (1831-1903)
Peasant woman feeding a child (Paysanne donnant a manger a un enfant), 1874
Zinc etching on wove paper
121 x 117 mm. (4 3/4 x 4 5/8 inches)
Signed in pencil, inscribed 'No 1 – 1er etat', titled in pencil with the added annotation 'zinc'
Delteil 12 first state (of four)
Pissarro pulled 8 or 9 impressions in this first state, in 1874; 15 years later (1889) he added several layers of aquatint, in an additional 3 states, but only made...
Pissarro pulled 8 or 9 impressions in this first state, in 1874; 15 years later (1889) he added several layers of aquatint, in an additional 3 states, but only made a few impressions of each of these states. In all, there are only about 12 or 13 impressions of this print known.
Provenance
Kennedy Galleries, New York