# The Place du Havre, Paris

**Camille Pissarro** (French, 1830–1903)  
1893  
Oil on canvas  
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.)

Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1922.434. [The museum's record](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/81551).

## About this work

Pissarro looks down from an upper window onto the Place du Havre beside the Gare Saint-Lazare in Paris, where pedestrians and carriages cross in every direction. In the 1890s, troubled by an eye condition that made working outdoors difficult, he painted a series of city views from hotel rooms, returning to the same streets in different weather and light. The high viewpoint flattens the scene into a lively pattern of small strokes, a modern, anonymous crowd in constant motion.

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Camille Pissarro painted this in 1893, aged 63. It is now at the Art Institute of Chicago.

### What you’re looking at

A work made of oil on canvas.

_Description from the Art Institute of Chicago._

### How it was made

- **Oil paint.** Pigment ground in a drying oil, usually linseed. It dries slowly, so painters could blend on the canvas, build up thin translucent glazes, and rework a picture over weeks. Canvas replaced wooden panels in the 1500s because it is lighter and can be rolled.

### [Camille Pissarro](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/camille-pissarro)

French, 1830–1903; born in Charlotte Amalie, Saint Thomas; died in Paris

Pissarro was born on the Caribbean island of Saint Thomas and moved to France in 1855. Encouraged by Corot, he became the elder statesman of Impressionism, the only painter to show at all eight of the group’s exhibitions, and a generous mentor to Cézanne and Gauguin. He painted the villages and fields around Pontoise and Éragny, briefly adopted Seurat’s divided brushwork, and in his last decade made series of Paris, Rouen and Le Havre seen from hotel windows.

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## Facts

- Type: Painting
- Culture: France
- The artist was 63
- Real size: about 24 × 29 in (60 × 73 cm). The 20 × 30 in print is close to life size.
- Century: 19th century
- Movement: [Impressionism](https://www.ochreeditions.com/movements/impressionism)
- Subjects: urban life, women, people, Paris, men, lights, horses, France
- Colour: grey
- Rights: public domain (CC0 1.0); free to use for any purpose.

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