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Paris Street; Rainy Day (French: Rue de Paris, temps de pluie) is a large 1877 oil painting by the French artist Gustave Caillebotte (1848–1894), and is his best known work. [1] It shows a number of individuals walking through the Place de Dublin , then known as the Carrefour de Moscou, at an intersection to the east of the Gare Saint-Lazare ...
Like Édouard Cortès (1882–1969) and Eugène Galien-Laloue (1854–1941), Antoine Blanchard essentially painted Paris and the Parisians in bygone days, often from vintage postcards. The artist began painting his Paris street scenes in the late 1950s, and like Cortès, often painted the same Paris landmark many times, in different weather ...
Boulevard des Capucines is the title of two oil-on-canvas paintings depicting the famous Paris boulevard by French Impressionist artist Claude Monet, created between 1873–1874. One version is vertical in format and depicts a snowy street scene looking down the boulevard towards the Place de l'Opéra. [1]
The Boulevard du Temple would have been busy with people and horse traffic, but because an exposure time of four to five minutes would have been required, the only people recorded were two keeping still – a bootblack and his customer, at the corner of the street shown at lower left of the plate. [10] [4] [6]
Numerous photographers achieved renown for their photography of Paris, including Eugene Atget, noted for his depictions of street scenes, Robert Doisneau, noted for his playful pictures of people and market scenes, Marcel Bovis, noted for his night scenes, and others such as Jacques-Henri Lartigue and Cartier-Bresson. [4]
The Street Photogprahy subreddit is a place where enthusiasts of this art form can come together and share their work, discuss technique, gear, or their philosophy behind shooting street. At least ...
Organ Grinder (1898). Eugène Atget (French:; 12 February 1857 – 4 August 1927) was a French flâneur [1] and a pioneer of documentary photography, noted for his determination to document all of the architecture and street scenes of Paris before their disappearance to modernization. [1]
Many of the great Impressionists were inspired by the vibrant, urban scenes of Paris. In the 1850s and 1860s, Paris was transformed into a modern metropolis by the urban planner, Georges-Eugène Haussmann. His massive urban renewal of the city resulted in a new layout dominated by wide boulevards, lined with uniform stone buildings, and open ...