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| Keywords: Camille Pissarro, The Boulevard Montmartre at Night, 1897.jpg Artwork en Towards the end of his life Pissarro increasingly turned to the representation of town scenes in Paris Rouen Dieppe Le Havre and London mainly painted from the windows of hotels and apartments In February 1897 he took a room in Paris at the Hôtel de Russie on the corner of the Boulevard des Italiens and the Rue Drouot and produced a series of paintings of the Boulevard Montmartre at different times of the day Pissarro may have been influenced by the series of paintings on which Monet was engaged at this time and by the earlier urban scenes of Manet This painting is the only night scene from this series and is a masterful rendition of the play of lights on dark and wet streets Pissarro neither signed nor exhibited it during his lifetime 1897 Oil on canvas 53 3 x 64 8 cm Institution National Gallery London object history exhibition history credit line Bought Courtauld Fund 1925 http //www nationalgallery org uk/paintings/camille-pissarro-the-boulevard-montmartre-at-night National Gallery London accession number NG4119 PD-100 Boulevard Montmartre Serie by Pissarro Paintings by Camille Pissarro in the National Gallery London 1897 in Paris 1897 paintings in France Streets in Paris at night Paintings of Paris at night 1897 paintings by Camille Pissarro | ||||
