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The Place du Havre, Paris

Camille Pissarro (French, 1830–1903)

1893

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Archival matte paper, 189 g/m² (10.3 mil), sourced from Japan, printed with multicolor water-based inkjet so every brushstroke stays crisp. Framed prints arrive ready to hang in a .75″ ayous-wood frame with an acrylite front. Sized to standard frames by cropping, never stretching — at most about 3% comes off one edge, which isn’t noticeable on most pieces, and we only offer a size when it stays that small.

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About this 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.

Medium
Oil on canvas
Original size
60.1 × 73.5 cm (23 5/8 × 28 13/16 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago · 1922.434 ↗
Museum record · 1 owner · 14 exhibitions

Provenance

  • The artist (d. 1903); sold to Durand-Ruel, Paris, March 17, 1893; sold to Potter Palmer (d. 1902), Chicago, June 28, 1894, for $1,200; by descent to the Potter family, Chicago; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1922.

Exhibitions

  • Paris, Galerie Durand-Ruel, Exposition d’oeuvres récentes de Camille Pissarro, Mar. 15–30, 1893, as la Place du Havre, 1893.
  • Paris, Galerie Durand-Ruel, Exposition Camille Pissarro: Tableaux, Aquarelles, Pastels, Gouaches, Mar. 3–21, 1894, as Cour du Havre.
  • Renaissance Society of The University of Chicago, Paintings of Sea and Land and City Streets, June 8–Aug. 30, 1933.
  • Arts Club of Chicago, Paintings by Camille Pissarro, Jan. 8–30, 1946.
  • Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, So This Is Paris: Exhibition of Paintings (Voici Paris: Exposition de tableaux), Oct. 4–29, 1950.
  • Chicago, College of Jewish Studies, Loan Exhibition, Jan. 12–Feb. 2, 1953.
  • Park Forest Art Center, Mar. 25–Apr. 22, 1956, no cat. University of Chicago, Lexington Hall, Mar. 4–15, 1957, no cat. Albi, Musée Toulouse-Lautrec, Trésors impressionnistes du Musée de Chicago, June 27–Aug. 31, 1980.
  • London, Hayward Gallery, Pissarro: Camille Pissarro 1830–1903, Oct. 30, 1980–Jan. 11, 1981; Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Jan. 30–Apr. 27, 1981; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, May 19–Aug. 9, 1981.
  • Los Angeles County Museum of Art, A Day in the Country: Impressionism and the French Landscape, June 28–Sept. 16, 1984; Art Institute of Chicago, Oct. 23, 1984–Jan. 6, 1985; Paris, Galeries Nationales d’Exposition du Grand Palais, as L’impressionnisme et le paysage français, Feb. 4–Apr. 22, 1985.
  • Tokyo, Seibu Museum of Art, Shikago bijutsukan insho-ha ten, Oct. 18–Dec. 17, 1985; Fukuoka Art Museum, Jan. 5–Feb. 2, 1986; Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Mar. 4–Apr. 13, 1986.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, Tour de France: Paintings, Photographs, Prints, and Drawings from the Collection of the Art Institute of Chicago, Dec. 9, 1989–Mar. 4, 1990, no cat. no..
  • Dallas Museum of Art, The Impressionists and the City: Pissarro’s Series Paintings, November 15, 1992–January 31, 1993; Philadelphia Museum of Art, March 7–June 6, 1993; London, Royal Academy of Arts, July 2–October 10, 1993.
  • Fort Worth, Tex., Kimbell Art Museum, The Impressionists: Master Paintings from the Art Institute of Chicago, June 29–Nov. 2, 2008.
  • Madrid, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Pissarro, June 4–Sept. 15, 2013; Barcelona, Obra Social ‘la Caixa,’ CaixaForum, Oct. 15, 2013–Jan. 26, 2014.
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