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The Boulevard Montmartre at Night

Landscapes and Still Lifes

One of fourteen views Pissarro painted of the Boulevard Montmartre in 1897 and his only night scene in the series, notable for its treatment of newly installed electric street lighting against older gas and oil lamps along the Paris boulevard.

Facts
Year Created
1897 1
Medium
Oil on canvas 1
Location
The National Gallery, London (accession NG4119) 1
Classification
Genre
Painting 1
Medium
Medium (category)
Oil on Canvas 1
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Source The National Gallery, London

In Form

Painting, Art Forms

In Genre

Painting, Art Forms

Entity-backed identity for the genre enum value this work already carries, resolved to an arts art-form by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The genre fact itself, with its own citation, stays on the work unchanged.

In Movement

Source Gardner's Art Through the AgesFred S. Kleiner (after Helen Gardner)
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Sources
1. The National Gallery, London
The National Gallery, London
  • Genre reference
    One of fourteen views Pissarro painted of the Boulevard Montmartre in 1897 and his only night scene in the series, notable for its treatment of newly installed electric street lighting against older gas and oil lamps along the Paris boulevard.
  • Created By: Camille Pissarro
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Gardner's Art Through the Ages
Fred S. Kleiner (after Helen Gardner), Cengage LearningIn Movement: Impressionism, chapter on Impressionism, section on Camille Pissarro
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