The Grands Boulevards

Les Grands Boulevards

The Grands Boulevards

Pierre-Auguste Renoir · 1875

Philadelphia Museum of Art

Philadelphia, United States

About this painting

Renoir captured Paris's fashionable Grands Boulevards in 1875 with rapid, dabbed brushwork, dissolving pedestrians and carriages into flickers of light and shadow typical of his street scenes of the period.

Painting Details

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

52.1 × 63.5 cm (20.5 × 25 in)

Painted at

Paris, France

Current location

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia

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