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Eye Candy for Today: Pissarro’s Boulevard Montmartre in Winter

The Boulevard Montmartre on a Winter Morning, Camille Pissarro
The Boulevard Montmartre on a Winter Morning, Camille Pissarro

In the Metropolitan Museum of Art; use the zoom or download icons under the image on their site.

This is part of a remarkable series of views of two of the grand boulevards of Paris, painted from a hotel room over the period of three months — two of the Boulevard Italiens and 14 of the Boulevard Montmartre. These were painted in a variety of weather, light and time of day over the changing of the season.

For more, see my article on Pissarro’s views of the boulevard Montmartre.