La Rue de la Paix
Datenot dated
Artist
Bernard Boutet de Monvel
(French painter, illustrator, designer, printmaker, 1881–1949)
MediumAquatint
Dimensionsplate: 8 3/4 × 15 1/16 in. (22.2 × 38.3 cm)
sheet: 5 15/16 × 15 5/8 in. (15.1 × 39.7 cm)
sheet: 5 15/16 × 15 5/8 in. (15.1 × 39.7 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1989
Object number1989-90
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPRINT
Label TextThis print may have been created by Bernard Boutet de Montvel to illustrate an article about horse-drawn carriages in the fashionable sections of Paris for the magazine Les Modes in 1902. The print inspired the artist's 1907 series of paintings on the same subject. The stylish Rue de la Paix was famous for its jewelers and couture houses. Here, the electric lights that appeared in Paris the early 1880s, along with the nearby chandelier, cast just enough glow to illumimate the elegant shoppers and passers-by. The son of children's book illustrator Louis du Boutet de Monvel, Bernard was a painter, printmaker, illustrator, decorator, and society portraitist. He collected antiques that made his Paris residence and studio a gathering place for his era's cafe society.
Louis Maurice Boutet de Monvel
1896
