CAMILLE PISSARRO Paysanne assise, les Pieds dans l'Eau.
Monotype printed in black on smooth, cream wove paper, circa 1894. 160x202 mm; 6 1/4x8 inches, full margins. With the artist's initials in black, lower left in the image. A very good impression of this extremely scarce print.
Published in Thomson, Camille Pissarro, Impressionism, Landscape and Rural Labour, London, 1990, page 90 (illustrated).
There is another monotype version of this subject in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
According to Shapiro, Pissarro wrote to his son Lucien in 1894 to inform him, "The press I bought from [the Parisian printer] Delâtre has been installed in the large studio; I am waiting for ink to make some prints. We tried to print with oil color, the effect is astonishing. It gives me the urge to do more etchings," (Shapiro, Camille Pissarro: The Impressionist Printmaker, Boston, 1973, page 6). In this letter, Pissarro was likely referring to montoype printmaking, which he had presumably practiced with Degas when the two were working together at etching during the late 1870s. Shapiro notes that Pissarro's younger son, Ludovic Rodo, mentioned his father creating numerous monotypes, but she adds, "Only a very small number have been found."
