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Theodore Robinson (1852–1896)
La Débâcle, 1892
Oil on canvas; 18 x 22 in. (45.7 x 55.9 cm)
Scripps College, Claremont, California, Gift of the General and Mrs. Edward Clinton Young, 1946
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La Débâcle takes its title from Emile Zola's best-selling novel about the Franco-Prussian War, which Robinson read during summer 1892 and the model holds in her lap. Like many American Impressionists, Robinson painted the figure and the landscape in different ways, using controlled brushstrokes to define the woman's face and dress and rendering the stone embankment more loosely. Robinson wrote in his diary on September 15, 1892, that Monet found this picture "amusing."
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