Place du Theatre-Francais, Spring - Camille Pissaro (1898)

Place du Théâtre-Français - spring ) is a painting by the French impressionist painterCamille Pissarro from 1898, oil on canvas. It is the last part of a series of faces that he painted in the winter and spring of 1898 from the square from the Hôtel du Louvre , next to the museum . It is now owned by the Hermitage in St. Petersburg. From 1888, Pissarro increasingly suffered from his eyes. Because he was bothered by the wind outside, he was forced to work more and more indoors. This led to the fact that he mainly began to paint scenes that he observed through the open window, thus still somewhat insistent on the premise that he had professed throughout his life: painting ' en plein air '. From the mid-1890s onwards, he mainly focused on city life.