During the winter and spring of 1897, Pissarro worked on a series of paintings depicting Paris boulevards. These works brought the artist into the public eye, and art critics came to regard him as one of the creators of Divisionism. Pissarro made sketches for the Paris Boulevards series from the window of his Paris hotel room. He completed the paintings at his studio in Éragny in late April. They are the only series by Pissarro in which the artist aimed to precisely reproduce the various effects of changing weather and sunlight.

Inscription: Signed and dated, bottom right: C. Pissarro 97

Accession Number: ГЭ-9002

Provenance:

Entered the Hermitage in 1948; handed over from the State Museum of New Western Art that obtained it in 1925 from the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow; originally in the M.P. Ryabushinsky collection