Paris, 1863–1906

Claude Monet

Boulevard des Capucines

1873–74

Oil on canvas, 31 1/2 × 23 3/4 in. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City

Look down at the crowd: Monet paints each person with one or two strokes.

Look at

• The street tilts up, so the pavement fills the lower half.
• The bare trees are a haze of thin gray-violet strokes.
• A cluster of pink balloons at the right is the brightest spot of warm color in a cool picture.

• Monet painted this view twice; the version shown in 1874 was probably the other one.

Image: Google Art Project · Public domain