Place de la Concorde (Degas)
| Place de la Concorde | |
|---|---|
| Artist | Edgar Degas |
| Year | 1875 |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Movement | Impressionism |
| Dimensions | 78.4 cm × 117.5 cm (30.9 in × 46.3 in) |
| Location | Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg |
Place de la Concorde or Viscount Lepic and his Daughters Crossing the Place de la Concorde is an 1875 oil painting by Edgar Degas. It depicts the cigar-smoking Ludovic-Napoléon Lepic, his daughters Eylau and Jeanine, his dog, and a solitary man on the left at Place de la Concorde in Paris. The man on the left may be the playwright Ludovic Halévy. The Tuileries Gardens can be seen in the background, behind a stone wall.
Notable for its innovative composition, use of negative space, and cropping, the painting reflects influences from photography and contemporary urban transformations during Haussmann's Paris. Widely thought to be lost after World War II, the painting was revealed in 1994 to be part of a collection looted by Soviet forces, later displayed at the Hermitage Museum in the controversial "Hidden Treasures Revealed" exhibition. It remains in the Hermitage's collection today.