Place de la Concorde no. III
Medium
Painting
Classification
Painting
Department
Smithsonian Collection
Museum
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Credit
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Laura Dreyfus Barney and Natalie Clifford Barney in memory of their mother, Alice Pike Barney
Accession Number
1969.192.8
Tags
Art Historical Context
Frank Edwin Scott’s “Place de la Concorde no. III” invites viewers into one of Paris’s most iconic civic spaces. The painting captures the bustling energy of the grand square, with its distinctive column—likely the Luxor Obelisk—and groups of figures moving through the open plaza. As a work in the Smithsonian American Art Museum collection, it reflects the enduring fascination American artists have held for the monumental public architecture and lively street life of the French capital. The Place de la Concorde itself carries deep historical weight, having served as the site of the guillotine...