# Place du Théâtre Français [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [PISSARRO, Camille]() - Date: 1851-1900 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 66 x 82 cm ## Commentary Place du Théâtre Français 1898 Oil on canvas, 66 x 82 cm The Hermitage, St. Petersburg Pissarro loved to paint the city from a high vantage point, blending the figures of people, fiacres, kiosks, and patches of light into a general motley of the street. The omnibuses on the spacious square, crossed by the relatively new Avenue de l'Opéra, are vivid signs of the new Paris yet already seem completely commonplace. ## Related artworks - [A Cowherd at Pontoise]() - [Apple Pickers]() - [Boulevard Montmartre at Night]() - [Boulevard Montmartre at Night]() - [Boulevard Montmartre in Paris]() - [Boulevard Montmartre on a Cloudy Morning]() - [Boulevard Montmartre on a Winter Morning]() - [Chestnut Trees at Louveciennes]() - [Entrance to the Village of Voisins le Bretonneux]() - [Fair at the Hermitage near Pontoise]() - [Farm at Montfoucault, Snow Effect]() - [Fox Hill, Upper Norwood]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()