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Look from the repeated windows down to the jumble of wheels, roofs, and pedestrians. Compare the different directions of the brushstrokes.
Pissarro painted this busy junction from a window at the Hôtel Garnier in early 1893; the Gare Saint-Lazare appears at the left edge. After experimenting with Seurat’s more regular division of color, he returned to freer marks. Their shifting directions help convey the movement of a modern city.
Oil on canvas · 60.1 × 73.5 cm · Art Institute of Chicago · Impressionism
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Details and source
- Museum title
- The Place du Havre, Paris
- Artist
- Camille Pissarro (French, 1830–1903)
- Date
- 1893
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 60.1 × 73.5 cm (23 5/8 × 28 13/16 in.); Framed: 83.2 × 97.8 × 12.1 cm (32 3/4 × 38 1/2 × 4 3/4 in.)
- Credit line
- Potter Palmer Collection
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.