''Boulevard des Capucines'' is an oil on canvas street scene painting of the famous Paris boulevard by French

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artist

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. During ...

created in 1873.

History

From the late 1860s, Monet and other like-minded artists, met with rejection from the conservative Académie des Beaux-Arts which held its annual exhibition at the

Salon de Paris The Salon (french: Salon), or rarely Paris Salon (French: ''Salon de Paris'' ), beginning in 1667 was the official art exhibition of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Between 1748 and 1890 it was arguably the greatest annual or biennial art ...

. During the latter part of 1873, Monet, Renoir, Pissarro, and Sisley organized the Société anonyme des artistes peintres, sculpteurs et graveurs to exhibit their artworks independently. At their first exhibition, held in April 1874, Monet exhibited the work that was to give the group its lasting name, ''

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''. Among the works Monet included in the

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was ''The Luncheon'', 1868, which features

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and

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. The painting was rejected by the Paris Salon of 1870. Also in this exhibition was a painting titled ''Boulevard des Capucines'', a painting of the boulevard done from the photographer Nadar's apartment at no. 35. Monet painted the subject twice and it is uncertain which of the two pictures, the one now in the

Pushkin Museum The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts (russian: Музей изобразительных искусств имени А. С. Пушкина, abbreviated as ) is the largest museum of European art in Moscow, located in Volkhonka street, just oppo ...

in Moscow, or that at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in

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(shown here) was the painting that appeared in the groundbreaking 1874 exhibition, though more recently the Moscow picture has been favoured.

References

External links

''Impressionism: a centenary exhibition''
an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on this painting (p. 159-163)
''At the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art''
{{DEFAULTSORT:Boulevard des Capucines 1873 paintings Paintings by Claude Monet Paintings in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Paintings in the Pushkin Museum

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