Édouard Manet - Rue Mosnier decorated with Flags 1878
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Rue Mosnier decorated with Flags 1878
65x80cm oil/canvas
Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
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From Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles:
To commemorate the recent Exposition Universelle, itself a celebration of luxury and prosperity, the French government declared June 30, 1878, a national holiday. The holiday, called the Fête de la Paix (Celebration of Peace), also marked France's recovery from the disastrous Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871 and the bloody, divisive Paris Commune that followed. From his second-floor window, Édouard Manet captured the holiday afternoon with his most precise, staccato brushwork in a patriotic harmony of the reds, whites, and blues of the French flag that waves from the new buildings' windows.