Terms and conditions of use
Boulevard Montmartre, morning, cloudy weather
(Boulevard Montmartre, matin, temps gris)
1897
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
73.0 × 92.0 cm
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1905
Gallery location
Late 19th & early 20th Century Paintings & Decorative Arts Gallery
Level 2, NGV International
About this work
In February 1897 Camille Pissarro began a series of paintings of the great boulevards of Paris. Between 10 February and 17 April, he painted fourteen views of the Boulevard Montmartre as seen from the window of a hotel room. In these canvases Pissarro was less
concerned with topography than with observing and capturing the constantly changing effects of light and weather. In addition, the fixed viewpoint afforded by his hotel’s upper-storey window allowed him to record not only the effects of weather patterns and light on the boulevard but also, and just as importantly, the everchanging configurations of the crowds and traffic below.
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
Paris, France
Inscription
inscribed in black paint l.r.: C. Pissarro, 97
Accession Number
204-2
Department
International Painting
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Subjects (general)
Cityscapes Daily Life Human Figures
Subjects (specific)
boulevards cities France (nation) morning Paris (inhabited place) pedestrians street scenes traffic
Movements
Impressionism
Provenance
Exhibited Loan collection of pictures by painters of the French school, Corporation of London, Guildhall, London, 1898, no. 153, as Boulevard des Italiens; from where purchased by Paul Durand-Ruel (dealer), Paris, 1898; with Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris, 1898–1905; by whom loaned to Grafton Gallery, London, for exhibition, 1905; from where purchased, by Bernard Hall, for the Felton Bequest, 1905.
Exhibited Loan collection of pictures by painters of the French school, Corporation of London, Guildhall, London, 1898, no. 153, as Boulevard des Italiens; Exposition de tableaux de Monet, Pissarro, Renoir et Sisley, Galeries Durand-Ruel, Paris, April 1899, no. 63; A Selection from the Pictures by Boudin… Pissarro et al., Grafton Gallery, London, 1905; Retrospective: Camille Pissarro, Isetan Museum of Art, Tokyo, Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, and Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan, 1984, no. 56; The Impressionists and the City: Pissarro’s Series Paintings, Dallas Museum of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Royal Academy, London, 1992–93, no. 45.