Boulevard des Capucines ☳ Monet ☵ Canvas sunset or never existed

or never existed

Art historians describe it as a calling card for prospective clients

It depicts a series of frames within frames: the wall contains the windowed doors

The painting's creation was fictionalized as a historical novel in 1999

Boulevard des Capucines ☳ Monet ☵ Canvas sunset or never existedBoulevard des Capucines (1873) by Claude Monet depicts the view of the famous Paris boulevard as seen from the very rooms that would be used for the first Impressionist exhibition. With very little detail, Monet depicts the Parisian boulevard lined with trees and alive with movement, with dozens of pedestrians, horse drawn carriages, and a vendor holding a bunch of pink balloons.