"(...) Monet’s “Boulevard des Capucines” (1873), the teeming vista of a city that knew itself to be the capital of the 19th century.

Monet painted this from the very gallery where the First Impressionist show took place, the studio of photographer Nadar. He thus challenged photography on home ground, assimilating its plunging viewpoints, sharp angles, blur of movement, while in the painterly blending of small flickering strokes he evoked urban experience as a web of light and atmosphere."
(Monet’s ‘Boulevard des Capucines’ © Atkins Museum of Art)

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