Boulevard Haussmann in Rain

Édouard Cassard · 1896

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

109 × 160 cm

Haussmann's great boulevards on a November evening — the cobblestones reflecting the amber of the gas lamps, the plane trees stripped of their leaves, the umbrellas a black punctuation across the grey. Cassard's second major Parisian street scene and his most atmospheric.