The Maid at the Market 1888

"The Maid at the Market" is an etching by the French Impressionist painter Camille Pissarro, created in 1888. The print depicts a young woman standing in a crowded marketplace, holding a basket and looking slightly to the right. This artwork, held in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, showcases Pissarro's mastery of depicting everyday life and the use of short, broken lines to capture the fleeting nature of light and shadow. The etching's composition, with the maid as the central figure and the bustling market in the background, emphasizes the simple beauty of ordinary life.