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silvery, luminous and alive - and that they would make a great motif for him. Pissarro rented a room that gave him a great view of avenue de l'Opéra and began to work. He stayed in the hotel until April and created approximately 15 painting showing the rue Saint-Honoré, the avenue de l'Opéra, and the Place du Théâtre Français from different perspectives and in different weather conditions. Most of his work from that time was later shown at the "Exposition d'œuvres récentes de
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the right by the theater facade. At the end we can see
Charles Garnier’s opera house. People depicted are Parisians from different social classes living their everyday lives. In some parts of the painting we can see cropped people, horses and carriages that give a sense of reality and movement and a feeling like this painting was based on a
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The painting captures a larger image of everyday life of
Parisians from above from a few-story building. The wide open space of the Place du Théâtre Français is in the foreground, shown here where it becomes the avenue de l'Opéra (its beginnings are almost invisible). The composition is closed off on
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Pissarro made in the Hôtel du Louvre to contemporary photographs. The absence of the sky and horizon and the perspective of a rising background suggest parallels with the composition of Japanese prints.
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