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Keywords: Jean Béraud - Paris Kiosk - Walters 371055.jpg Like a number of other 19th-century artists Béraud first trained to become a lawyer before discovering his true calling In 1872 he enrolled in the studio of the portraiture specialist Léon Bonnat While he began as a portraitist he eventually became known for his highly detailed scenes of urban life Working from a carriage that he converted into a mobile studio Béraud recorded life on the grand boulevards of Paris The corner represented here can still be recognized as the intersection of the Rue Scribe and the Boulevard des Capucines Like Degas Béraud depicted modern life in all of its variety with journalistic accuracy Béraud however delighted in recording even the smallest details which are so precise that we can make out an advertisement for Yedda a popular ballet and just below it another playbill for a comic opera called La Fatinitza which opened in Paris in 1879 between 1880 1884 Oil on canvas cm 35 5 26 5 ; with frame cm 52 71 41 91 9 21 accession number 37 1055 27564 Me Boussaton Me Boussaton Sale Georges Petit Paris May 5 1891 no 6 Maurice Mallet's Gallery June 11 1901 mode of acquisition unknown Henry Walters city Baltimore G A Lucas as agent; George A Lucas/Henry Walters account book ms Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1901 à mon ami Boussaton / Jean Béraud dedication / date lower right fr to my Boussanton / Jean Béraud Before Monet Landscape Painting in France and Impressionist Masters Highlights from The Walters Collection The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1998 Vive la France French Treasures from the Middle Ages to Monet The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1999-2000 A Magnificent Age Masterpieces from the Walters Art Museum Baltimore The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Kansas City; Mint Museum of Art Charlotte; The Walters Art Museum Baltimore 2002-2004 19th Century Masterpieces from the Walters Art Museum Santa Barbara Museum of Art Santa Barbara; Jack S Blanton Museum of Art Austin 2010-2011 place of origin Paris France place depicted Grand Café today Hôtel Scribe Paris PD-old-auto 1935 Paintings of Paris by Jean Béraud Paintings of Paris streets Historical images of Boulevard des Capucines 1880s Rue Scribe Paris 1880s Paintings of people in Paris French paintings in the Walters Art Museum Females with red dresses in art Fatinitza Salon indien du Grand Café 19th-century genre paintings from France Colonnes Morris in Paris Off the Wall Baltimore 1880s paintings from France 1880s dresses Mobile studios Vive la France French Treasures from the Middle Ages to Monet
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