winter day with grey sky; view of the back of a black coach, with coachman's head and upper body visible, driving down a snow-covered street with wheel and horse's tracks in the snow; buildings at left and right side of street

L'Avenue de Neuilly on a Winter Day, 1874

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The artistic climate of the latter decades of the nineteenth-century in France was one of modernity and contemporaneity—life in the city. Its most salient representation is found in the paintings and graphic arts of the period called the Belle Époque (1890–1900) and continuing well into the twentieth-century. Luigi Loir, Austrian-born but Paris-trained, was the acknowledged “landscape artist of Paris” who depicted the everyday street scenes of the metropolis and found inspiration in the commercialized and glamorous urban environment. He was especially adept at capturing the stillness of the winter landscape in the outer suburbs.

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Title
L'Avenue de Neuilly on a Winter Day
Artist Life
1845 - 1916
Role
Artist
Accession Number
2016.33.22
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winter day with grey sky; view of the back of a black coach, with coachman's head and upper body visible, driving down a snow-covered street with wheel and horse's tracks in the snow; buildings at left and right side of street