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The image shows a busy street scene from a slightly elevated perspective. The area is filled with people, horses, buildings, and leafless trees, giving a sense of winter or late autumn. The brushstrokes convey movement, with lively figures and horses contrasted with softer strokes for the buildings and trees. The color palette is mostly muted earth tones with occasional bright accents, like red hats. A grand building with ornate architecture is on the right, with lit windows.

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The Boulevard

painter Jean François Raffaëlli (French, 1850 - 1924)

c. 1900/1905

Medium: oil on canvas
Classification: Painting
Dimensions: overall: 67.31 × 81.28 cm (26 1/2 × 32 in.) ; framed: 99.06 × 112.71 × 8.89 cm (39 × 44 3/8 × 3 1/2 in.)
Culture: French
Museum: National Gallery of Art, CF
Credit line: Corcoran Collection (William A. Clark Collection, 1926)
Rights: Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

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