Paris paintings, maps and Eiffel Tower photographs, framed
The Eiffel Tower went up between 1887 and 1889 for the Exposition Universelle. Photographers, among them Louis-Émile Durandelle, recorded it stage by stage, from four iron legs by the Seine to the platforms and the top, and those photographs open this page.
The Impressionists painted the new Paris of boulevards and dance halls: Renoir's Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette (1876) and The Grands Boulevards, Pissarro's Boulevard Montmartre in spring and on a winter morning, Caillebotte's rooftops in the snow and Manet's races at Longchamp. Notre-Dame appears from the quais in views by Albert Lebourg and Maximilien Luce, and Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People remembers the July Revolution of 1830.
Two old maps, Janssonius's plan of 1657 and the bird's-eye Turgot map of 1739, show the city street by street, and the Liberation of Paris in August 1944 closes the set. Each is printed at its true shape, nothing cropped or stretched, and arrives framed and ready to hang.
23 works in this collection, dated 1657 to 1944. Most represented: Hippolyte Blancard (6), Camille Pissarro (2), and Pierre-Auguste Renoir (2). Sources include Musée Carnavalet, Paris, Paris Musées, and Musée Carnavalet.
