Boulevard Montmartre - Mardi-Gras, 1897 by Camille Jacob Pissarro
Canvas Print - 2154-PIC
Location: Armand Hammer Museum of Art at UCLA, Los Angeles, USAOriginal Size: 65 x 81.3 cm
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Painting Information
Here on the Boulevard Montmartre, Pissarro captures the pulsing heart of fin de siècle Paris with characteristic Impressionist verve. The painting presents a aerial view of carnival revelry, with crowds of merrymakers flowing like a dark river between the uniform Haussmanian facades that define the great boulevard. The scene thrums with a peculiar tension between order and chaos, structure and movement.
The artist's masterful handling of perspective draws us into the canyon-like space of the boulevard, where the built environment provides a rigid geometric framework for the swirling humanity below. The parallel lines of the buildings, with their regimented windows and chimneys, march toward a misty vanishing point, while the trees' bare winter branches create a delicate filigree against the cool, pearl-grey sky.
Pissarro's technique here shows his mature style at its most assured. His brushwork ranges from the relatively controlled rendering of the architecture to increasingly loose, staccato touches that dissolve into pure sensation in the crowd below. The painting's surface vibrates with small dabs of color - notes of red, yellow, and green punctuating the dominant greys and browns - creating a shimmering effect that perfectly captures the festive atmosphere of Mardi Gras.
What's particularly striking is how Pissarro transforms the crowd into an abstract pattern of dots and dashes, anticipating by decades the experiments of post-impressionism and pointillism. Yet this semi-abstraction serves a deeper truth: it conveys precisely how such a mass of people would appear from this elevated vantage point, where individual figures merge into a collective entity. The painting thus becomes both a celebration of modern urban life and a meditation on the relationship between the individual and the crowd, the permanent and the ephemeral, in the modern city.
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