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Description: | Signed: yes Description: This extraordinary picture, of street cleaners shovelling up horse manure in the early hours of the morning, is probably the painting Véron exhibited at the Salon of 1857, entitled Les Boulevards Extérieurs de Paris. It records working class activity on the new, outlying boulevards that formed an important part of Baron Haussmann's improvements to the street plan of Paris. The whole is bathed in a silvery morning light which lifts the mundane nature of the subject matter. | Subjects: | townscape; place (Paris); figure; animal (horse) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Veron, Alexandre René (French painter 1826-1897) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=9017... | Go to resource |
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