Young Peasant Having Her Coffee
Camille Pissarro (French, 1830-1903)
1879/80
- Medium
- Black chalk on buff laid paper, laid down on cream wove paper
- Classification
- Drawing and Watercolor
- Dimensions
- 61.4 × 47.9 cm (24 3/16 × 18 7/8 in.)
- Culture
- France
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Regenstein Endowment Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
Beloved for his Impressionist landscapes, around 1880 Pissarro turned his attention to the human figure, producing Young Peasant Having Her Coffee, a monumental canvas of a humble subject, among other works. Hands and feet have gained notoriety for being the most difficult body parts to draw, and this sheet reveals the artist’s struggle to depict his subject’s hands. The painting was shown with a group of other new figure pictures at the seventh Impressionist exhibition in 1882. Exceedingly rare, this is the largest of the artist’s preparatory drawings.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
