''The Rue Mosnier with Flags'' is an 1878 oil on canvas painting by

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, showing the eponymous

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ian street, decorated with

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s for the first national holiday on 30 June 1878, the ''Fête de la Paix'' (Celebration of Peace). The ''Fête de la Paix'' was held during that year's ''Exposition Universelle'', which together marked France's recovery after the Franco-Prussian War and the

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. The holiday was moved to 14 July in 1880 to become

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. The painting is held by the

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.The Rue Mosnier with Flags
Google Arts & Culture The painting depicts a scene on the Rue Mosnier, now the , which is overlooked by Manet's studio at 4 . It was painted from an upstairs window, with

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flags hanging from the buildings along the road, above passing pedestrians and carriages. In the foreground is a man with a ladder, and a one-legged man on crutches, possibly a veteran wounded in the Franco-Prussian War. Behind a fence to the left is rubble from building works to extend the Gare Saint-Lazare. The painting measures and it is signed and dated in the lower left corner, "Manet / 1878". This work echoes the composition of another Manet painting of 1878, ''Road-menders in the Rue Mossnier''. Another 1878 Manet painting of a similar scene of the Rue Monsier, decorated with flags, is held in a private collection. Similar paintings of flags on the

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and Rue Saint-Denis in Paris in 1878 were made by

Claude Monet Oscar-Claude Monet (, , ; 14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926) was a French painter and founder of impressionist painting who is seen as a key precursor to modernism, especially in his attempts to paint nature as he perceived it. Durin ...

, and these works were echoed by a 1917 painting of New York by

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, '' The Avenue in the Rain''. The painting passed through the hands of

Jean-Baptiste Faure Jean-Baptiste Faure () (15 January 1830 – 9 November 1914) was a French operatic baritone and art collector who also composed several classical songs. Singing career Faure was born in Moulins. A choirboy in his youth, he entered the Pari ...

in the 1890s, and then Auguste Pellerin until 1910. It was owned by the Hungarians Marcell Nemes and then Baron Mór Lipót Herzog, and it was sold before 1932 to German banker Jakob Goldschmidt. After his death in 1955, it was sold by his estate in London in 1958 to Paul Mellon, and then sold at Christie's in New York in 1989 to the

, in California.

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File:Edouard Manet Pflasterer in der Rue Mosnier.jpg, Édouard Manet, ''Road-menders in the Rue Mossnier'', 1878, private collection File:Edouard Manet Rue Mosnier Decorated with Flags 1878.jpg, Édouard Manet, ''Rue Monsier with flags'', 1878, private collection File:Claude Monet - The Rue Montorgueil in Paris. Celebration of June 30, 1878 - Google Art Project.jpg, Claude Monet , Musée d'Orsay File:Rue Saint-Denis with Flags by Claude Monet.jpg, Édouard Manet, '' Rue Saint-Denis, fête du 30 juin 1878 ''

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