MAKE A MEME View Large Image The Rue Mosnier with Flags, 1878.jpg Assessments 1 Artwork Q3212521 Creator Édouard Manet The Rue Mosnier with Flags La Rue Mosnier aux drapeaux To commemorate the recent Exposition Universelle itself a celebration of luxury and prosperity ...
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Keywords: Édouard Manet, The Rue Mosnier with Flags, 1878.jpg Assessments 1 Artwork Q3212521 Creator Édouard Manet The Rue Mosnier with Flags La Rue Mosnier aux drapeaux 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 <br> The urban street was a principal subject of Impressionist and Modernist painting; many artists aimed to show not only the transformation and growth of the Industrial Age but how it also affected society Manet's eyes saw both elegant passengers in hansom cabs and in the foreground a worker carrying a ladder The hunched amputee on crutches perhaps a war veteran or beggar passes by fenced-in debris left from the construction of a new train track Manet's sensitivity to the associated costs and sacrifices tempered his optimistic view of national pride and newfound prosperity 1878 Oil on canvas Unframed 65 4 x 80 cm 25 3/4 x 31 1/2 in Framed outer dim Display 96 5 x 112 4 x 11 4 cm 38 x 44 1/4 x 4 1/2 in Institution Getty Museum object history exhibition history 946 Signed lower left Manet / 1878 credit line accession number 89 PA 71 PD-100 Paintings of Paris by Édouard Manet Rue de Berne Paris Paintings of Paris streets 1878 in Paris 1878 paintings in France Paintings of flags of France Flags in Paris French paintings in the Getty Center Ladders in Paris Wooden ladders in France Ladders in art Streets of Paris from above Featured pictures of painting Featured pictures of Paris Featured pictures of Los Angeles
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