Shop art print and framed art Boulevard des Capucines by Claude Monet

Boulevard des Capucines is Monet's second painting on the theme of Boulevard des Capucines, painted in 1873. It is an oil on canvas measuring 80 × 60 cm and is now in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri. It is numbered 293 in the Wildentstein catalogue. "It depicts a winter afternoon, with bare, blurred trees. It is a vertical view executed on a snowy day, the roofs, streets, facades are swept with white stripes, men in top hats observe the scene from the nearby balcony."" This second Boulevard de Capucines was not the one Monet chose to show at the First Exhibition of Impressionist Painters from 15 April to 15 May, and it is numbered 293 in the catalogue raisonné compiled by Daniel Wildenstein. That year, from the same balcony, Monet painted two canvases with the same inverted dimensions: the first is horizontal, the second vertical. The first, Le Boulevard des Capucines oil on canvas 60 × 80 cm, is in the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow. It is numbered 292 in Daniel Wildenstein's 1996 catalogue. It was painted from the balcony of the photographer Nadar's studio at 35 rue des Capucines, on the corner of rue Daunou and boulevard des Capucines, which a few months later became known as the "Anciens Salons Nadar". Manet later said that Nadar was "as good as bread". It was indeed a chance for the painter to observe the bustle of the Boulevard des Capucines from above, with characters that he interpreted as thin graphic notations. The first Le Boulevard [...]

 

This artwork is a painting from the modern period. It belongs to the impressionism style.

 

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