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| Keywords: Jean Béraud, Parisian Street Scene.jpg Artwork Creator Jean Béraud This painting shows a view of a Parisian street corner on a gray winter day A typical Parisian scene as Beraud ™s straightforward paintings most commonly were this painting evokes bustling activity in the background and an exchange of gazes in the foreground A stylish woman dressed in black peruses a poster-covered kiosk its orange tones contrasting to the otherwise silvery tones of the painting To her right another man who momentarily appears to be doing the same actually gazes in her direction He is joined by another man who peers from behind the kiosk to admire the woman ™s fashionable beauty This woman is the only female shown in the painting as men fill the background with movement and conversation Beraud ™s representation of this street scene is so precise that its location in Paris can be identified as a view of the boulevard des Italiens from the corner of rue Laffitte c 1885 Oil panel cm 38 7 26 8 Institution Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition history credit line Robert Lehman Collection 1975 Signed lower right Jean Béraud accession number 1975 1 243 http //www metmuseum org/collections/search-the-collections/150000227 The Metropolitan Museum of Art PD-old-auto 1935 Paintings of Paris by Jean Béraud Paintings of Paris streets Colonnes Morris in Paris Historical images of Boulevard des Italiens Rue Laffitte Paris 1885 in Paris Images of Paris from the Metropolitan Museum of Art Lehman Collection French paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art | ||||
