Art Institute of Chicago
The Place du Havre, Paris
Camille Pissarro (French, 1830–1903)LinkedCulture matchlcp-4ce3f30e0a43
- Date
- 1893
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Culture
- France
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 81551
After a period of experimentation with the Neo-Impressionist style developed by Georges Seurat , Camille Pissarro returned to the loose, multidirectional brushstrokes that he had used in his earlier Impressionist works. He also revisited an Impressionist subject that his colleagues had all but abandoned by the 1890s—the modern city. This bustling scene, alive with the noise and movement of traffic and pedestrians, was the view from his window at the Hôtel Garnier in Paris, where he stayed for a few weeks early in 1893. The building at the left edge of the canvas is the Gare Saint-Lazare.
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- Credit line
- Potter Palmer Collection
- Provenance
- The artist (d. 1903); sold to Durand-Ruel, Paris, March 17, 1893 [per Pissarro and Snollaerts 2005]; sold to Potter Palmer (d. 1902), Chicago, June 28, 1894, for $1,200 [per Durand-Ruel Archives, New York Stock no. 1168 and Paris Stock no. 2707, as Place du Hârve, as confirmed by Caroline Durand-Ruel Godfroy, Durand-Ruel Archives, to the Art Institute of Chicago, Dec. 13, 1994, curatorial object file]; by descent to the Potter family, Chicago; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1922.
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- Object type
- AAT300033618
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