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Camille Pissarro - Boulevard Montmartre winter morning 1897 « previous picture | Pissarro | next picture »

Mary Cassatt 1844–1926. American painter and printmaker who was part of the group of Impressionists working in and around Paris. She took as her subjects almost exclusively women and children. ArtsViewer.com

From Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City:
After spending six years in rural Éragny, Pissarro returned to 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.