• Artist: Camille Pissarro

• Title: The Boulevard Montmartre on a Winter

  Morning

• Date: 1897

• Medium: Oil on canvas

• Currently: The Metropolitan 

  Museum of Art

• Source: www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-

   collection-online/search/437310

• Description: a busy town, bare trees, vintage 

   buildings, cool tones, lots of people and 

   carriages, light posts

• Analysis: There is a cool color scheme

  consisting of whites, blues, and pale colors. 

  It is a symmetrical piece because the street lines 

  lead back to one vanishing point and the subject

  matter is distributed evenly. The carriages look

Daily Life

  like 3-D rectangles that were created from the one point perspective used. The overall work consists of 

  pale colors with bursts of gold on some of the objects. The objects become smaller and lighter the farther 

  back they are and the overlapping of them all work together to create space. The thick, rough brush

  strokes give the paintings as a whole a rigid texture.

• Interpretation: The cool colors and pale hues used in this piece work with each other to create the cold 

  and crisp feeling of winter. The straight lines leading back to the vanishing point suggest an everlasting

  feeling, like emptiness, that will never end and the brush strokes help create the ridged texture of winter. 

  Even though there are lots of people and motion in the picture, I still believe that the picture is suggesting

  a bare, empty feeling through the month of winter.

• Judgement: I like how this work was able to create such a busy feeling at first glance, but if you dug 

  deeper, you were able to pull out other emotions. To me, this painting feels very sad and lonley.