Le Marché aux Legumes à Pontoise. Vegetable Market at Pontoise. by Camille Pissarro, 1830-1903

Camille Pissarro, 1830-1903
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Le Marché aux Legumes à Pontoise. Vegetable Market at Pontoise.

Original etching with aquatint and mixed techniques in black ink. 1891. From the edition of 500 impressions printed by Delatre for Delteil 1923. As issued for the Peintre-Graveur Illustré, Delteil 1923.
Ref: Delteil - Pissarro no 97. Leymarie-Melot Impressionist Prints no 96.

Very fine strong impression with excellent tone of this issue. On cream heavy wove paper. Excellent condition. Full 5/8 - 1 1/2inch margins. Sheet: 12 ¾ x 9 5/8ins. Plate: 10 x 8ins (255x200mm).

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Le Marché aux Legumes is one of the most famous etchings in Pissarro's graphic oeuvre. Like the similar large-scale Marché de Volailles it reveals the full extent of his masterly and inventive technique in etching. A structure in etched line is interwoven with textures created through aquatint tone, scraping, burnisher work and patterns of parallel line shading. It creates a sense of surface and light which is full of movement, capturing the full impressionist concept of the 'sensation of a moment' linked to the theme of modern everyday realism.

The earlier editions of this etching had been restricted to 49 impressions only; as a result the plate printed extremely well in this issue for Delteil.