Édouard Manet
(1832 - 1883)
(1832 - 1883)
The Rue Mosnier with Flags is an 1878 oil on canvas painting by Édouard Manet, showing the eponymous Parisian street, decorated with French flags for the first national holiday on 30 June 1878, the Fête de la Paix (Celebration of Peace). The Fête de la Paix was held during that year's Exposition Universelle, which together marked France's recovery after the Franco-Prussian War and the Paris Commune. The holiday was moved to 14 July in 1880 to become Bastille Day. The painting is held by the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles.
The painting depicts a scene on the Rue Mosnier, now the Rue de Berne [fr], which is overlooked by Manet's studio at 4 Rue de Saint-Pétersbourg [fr]. It was painted from an upstairs window, with tricolour flags hanging from the buildings along the road, above passing pedestrians and carriages. In the foreground is a man with a ladder, and a one-legged man on crutches, possibly a veteran wounded in the Franco-Prussian War. Behind a fence to the left is rubble from building works to extend the Gare Saint-Lazare. The painting measures 65.4 cm × 80 cm (25.7 in × 31.5 in) and it is signed and dated in the lower left corner, "Manet / 1878". This work echoes the composition of another Manet painting of 1878, Road-menders in the Rue Mosnier. Another 1878 Manet painting of a similar scene of the Rue Mosnier, decorated with flags, is held in a private collection.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rue_Mosnier_Dressed_with_Flags
The painting depicts a scene on the Rue Mosnier, now the Rue de Berne [fr], which is overlooked by Manet's studio at 4 Rue de Saint-Pétersbourg [fr]. It was painted from an upstairs window, with tricolour flags hanging from the buildings along the road, above passing pedestrians and carriages. In the foreground is a man with a ladder, and a one-legged man on crutches, possibly a veteran wounded in the Franco-Prussian War. Behind a fence to the left is rubble from building works to extend the Gare Saint-Lazare. The painting measures 65.4 cm × 80 cm (25.7 in × 31.5 in) and it is signed and dated in the lower left corner, "Manet / 1878". This work echoes the composition of another Manet painting of 1878, Road-menders in the Rue Mosnier. Another 1878 Manet painting of a similar scene of the Rue Mosnier, decorated with flags, is held in a private collection.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rue_Mosnier_Dressed_with_Flags
The Rue Mosnier with Flags
1878
Oil on canvas
65.4 x 80 cm
Getty Center, L.A.
https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/103RJM
1878
Oil on canvas
65.4 x 80 cm
Getty Center, L.A.
https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/103RJM

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