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Description: | Signed: yes Description: Jongkind spent many years in Paris where, like Manet, he witnessed the radical building programme carried out during the Second Empire. Hundreds of the old narrow Parisian streets were destroyed or widened, and many historic buildings were lost. Here Jongkind records a scene he witnessed, even inscribing the painting with the actual day, April 17, 1868. When the American artist Henry Tuckerman visited Paris in 1867 he was staggered by the changes that had taken place since his last visit 20 years earlier: 'Baron Haussmann, the Prefect, has cut through streets, demolished whole quarters, made space and substituted modern elegance for old squalor.' | Subjects: | Paris); trade and industry place (rue de Francs-Bourgeois | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Jongkind, Johan Barthold (Dutch painter and printmaker, 1819-1891, active in France) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8295... | Go to resource |
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