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Camille Pissarro
La Place du Théâtre Français1898

On view:
Resnick Pavilion, floor 1
Impressionist oil painting of a bustling city square seen from above, filled with horse-drawn omnibuses, carriages, and dozens of pedestrians in winter coats, rendered in sandy tans and grays with loose brushwork

Camille Pissarro, La Place du Théâtre Français, 1898, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. George Gard De Sylva Collection, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Camille Pissarro
West Indies, active France, 1830-1903
Title
La Place du Théâtre Français
Place Made
France
Date Made
1898
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
Canvas: 28 1/2 × 36 1/2 in. (72.39 × 92.71 cm) Frame: 40 × 48 × 4 in. (101.6 × 121.92 × 10.16 cm)
Credit Line
Mr. and Mrs. George Gard De Sylva Collection
Accession Number
M.46.3.2
Classification
Paintings
Collecting Area
European Painting and Sculpture
Selected Bibliography
  • Fort, Ilene Susan. The Flag Paintings of Childe Hassam. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1988.
  • Schaefer, Scott, and Peter Fusco. European Painting and Sculpture in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art: an Illustrated Summary Catalogue. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1987.
  • Hopkins, Henry T., ed. Illustrated Handbook of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. West Germany: Bruder Hartmann, 1965.
  • Brettell, Richard et al., A Day in the Country: Impressionism and the French Landscape. Los Angeles: Los Angeles Museum of Art, 1984.

  • Valentiner, William Reinhold. The Mr. and Mrs. George Gard De Sylva Collection of French Impressionist and Modern Paintings and Sculpture. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1950.
  • Mittler, Gene A. Art in Focus. Glencoe/MacMillan McGraw-Hill, 2000.
  • Finckh, Gerhard, ed. Camille Pissarro: der Vater des Impressionismus. Wuppertal: Von der Heydt-Museum, 2014.
  • Impressionists in Town. Copenhagen: Ordrupgaard, 1996.
  • Lehmbeck, Leah, Britt Salvesen, and Vanessa R. Schwartz, eds. City of Cinema: Paris 1850-1907. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; New York: DelMonico Books-D.A.P., 2022.
  • Milkovich, Michael, editor. Homage to Camille Pissarro: the Last Years, 1890-1903. Memphis, TN: Dixon Gallery and Gardens, 1980.

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