LUCE, Maximilien
(b. 1858, Paris, 1941, Paris)

A Street in Paris in May 1871

1903-05
Oil on canvas, 151 x 225 cm
Musée d'Orsay, Paris

This painting depicts a scene from the time of the Paris Commune. The painter's Neo-Impressionist style of painting, generally more evocative of a beach or other place of pleasure, here reveals the stark reality of civil war.




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