This poster print features Camille Pissarro’s The Boulevard Montmartre at Night.

Towards the end of his life Pissarro increasingly turned to the representation of town scenes in Paris, Rouen, Dieppe, Le Havre and London, mainly painted from the windows of hotels and apartments. In February 1897 he took a room in Paris at the Hôtel de Russie on the corner of the Boulevard des Italiens and the Rue Drouot, and produced a series of paintings of the Boulevard Montmartre at different times of the day. This painting is the only night scene from this series, and is a masterful rendition of the play of lights on dark and wet streets. Pissarro neither signed nor exhibited it during his lifetime.

About this painting

The Boulevard Montmartre at Night, 1897
Oil on canvas, 53.3 x 64.8 cm
© The National Gallery London, Bought, Courtauld Fund, 1925

This poster has a classic white border, the artist's name and the National Gallery logo at the bottom.