Boulevard Montmartre, Evening, Paris Street Scene

A dark wood engraving of an evening boulevard lined with trees, where a crowd gathers under gaslit lamps near a distant building. In the foreground, a silhouetted figure in a long skirt and hat sits beneath the trunk of a large tree, with a horse-drawn carriage visible at left.

Artist

Louis Auguste Lepère

Date

1890, published 1910

Medium

Wood engraving in black on cream Japanese tissue

Source

Art Institute of Chicago

Size

1686 × 2138 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Mr. Philip Pinsof