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Degas, Edgar 
Place de la Concorde
Oil on canvas
78 x 117 cm
France
1875
Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
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The chief figure in the picture is Ludovic-Napoléon Lepic (1839-1885), an aristocrat, artist, engraver, and a Parisian flâneur.  Viscount Lepic and his two daughters are crossing the Place de la  Concorde, with the Tuileries behind a stone wall. The painting displays  movement, in several different directions at once. The Viscount strolls  along unhurriedly - each detail corresponds precisely to the image of a flâneur.  Both girls are entirely independent and seem to be going a completely  different way. Some commentators see the children as a means of  emphasizing the studied indifference of the flâneur, a person who always preserves self-possession, observing instead of taking part.
A number of recent commentators see the expansiveness  of the painting as the result of the influence of photography. But the  whole history of photography shows that it did not overtake painting but  followed behind it.

Degas, Edgar

Place de la Concorde

Oil on canvas

78 x 117 cm

France

1875

Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia

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The chief figure in the picture is Ludovic-Napoléon Lepic (1839-1885), an aristocrat, artist, engraver, and a Parisian flâneur. Viscount Lepic and his two daughters are crossing the Place de la Concorde, with the Tuileries behind a stone wall. The painting displays movement, in several different directions at once. The Viscount strolls along unhurriedly - each detail corresponds precisely to the image of a flâneur. Both girls are entirely independent and seem to be going a completely different way. Some commentators see the children as a means of emphasizing the studied indifference of the flâneur, a person who always preserves self-possession, observing instead of taking part.

A number of recent commentators see the expansiveness of the painting as the result of the influence of photography. But the whole history of photography shows that it did not overtake painting but followed behind it.

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