The Boulevard Montmartre on a Winter Morning
During the 1890s, Pissarro left his rural retreat in Eragny to spend time in Paris, where he painted several series of the grands boulevards. Surveying the view from his lodgings at the Grand Hôtel de Russie in early 1897, Pissarro marveled that he could "see down the whole length of the boulevards" with "almost a bird's-eye view of carriages, omnibuses, people, between big trees, big houses that have to be set straight." From February through April, he recorded—in two scenes of the boulevard des Italiens to the right, and fourteen of the boulevard Montmartre to the left—the spectacle of urban life as it unfolded below his window.
Artwork Details
- Title: The Boulevard Montmartre on a Winter Morning
- Artist: Camille Pissarro (French, Charlotte Amalie, Saint Thomas 1830–1903 Paris)
- Date: 1897
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 25 1/2 x 32 in. (64.8 x 81.3 cm)
- Classification: Paintings
- Credit Line: Gift of Katrin S. Vietor, in loving memory of Ernest G. Vietor, 1960
- Object Number: 60.174
- Curatorial Department: European Paintings
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