We look down onto a wide, bustling, tree-lined avenue filled with buildings, people, and horse-drawn carriages in this horizontal painting. Muted, warm browns, sage green, slate blue, and brick red dominate the urban scene, which is loosely painted with short and long dotted brushstrokes so some details are difficult to make out. The street extends diagonally up from our lower left with wide gray sidewalks on either side, which are lined by slender trees sparsely dotted with brown leaves. Dozens of pedestrians meander individually, in pairs, and in small groups on the sidewalks in coats and…
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Boulevard des Italiens, Morning, Sunlight

Camille Pissarro (French, born St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, 1830 - 1903)

1897

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 73.2 x 92.1 cm (28 13/16 x 36 1/4 in.) ; framed: 100.3 x 92.1 x 7 cm (39 1/2 x 36 1/4 x 2 3/4 in.)
Culture
French
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CF
Credit line
Chester Dale Collection
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed

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