1893
oil
canvas
From the collection of Art Institute of Chicago
Dominant colour
The Place du Havre, Paris is a 1893 oil by Camille Pissarro, a Impressionism work, held at Art Institute of Chicago.
The painting shows a busy street scene in Paris. It's a view from the artist's hotel window. The artist returned to his earlier style after trying something new, which is interesting because it shows he didn't stick to one way of painting. You can look up the technique of impasto to learn more about how artists like this one created textured effects in their work.
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.
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.
Paris, Galerie Durand-Ruel, Exposition d’oeuvres récentes de Camille Pissarro, Mar. 15–30, 1893, cat. 40, as la Place du Havre, 1893. Paris, Galerie Durand-Ruel, Exposition Camille Pissarro: Tableaux, Aquarelles, Pastels, Gouaches, Mar. 3–21, 1894, cat. 8, as Cour du Havre. Renaissance Society of The University of Chicago, Paintings of Sea and Land and City Streets, June 8–Aug. 30, 1933, cat. 3. Arts Club of Chicago, Paintings by Camille Pissarro, Jan. 8–30, 1946, cat. 5. Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, So This Is Paris: Exhibition of Paintings (Voici Paris: Exposition de tableaux), Oct. 4–29,…
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Jacob Abraham Camille Pissarro ( piss-AR-oh; French: ; 10 July 1830 – 13 November 1903) was a Danish-French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter born on the island of Saint Thomas (now in the US Virgin Islands, but then in the Danish West Indies).
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