Poster Claude Monet - La Rue Montorgueil, Paris. Celebration of June 30, 1878

Claude Monet (1840 - 1926)
La Rue Montorgueil, à Paris. Celebration of June 30, 1878, 1878
Oil on canvas. H. 81,0 ; L. 50,0 cm.
Dation, 1982
© Musée d'Orsay, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Patrice Schmidt

The Rue Montorgueil, like its twin painting
The Rue Saint-Denis
(Rouen, musée des Beaux-arts), is often...

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Claude Monet (1840 - 1926)
La Rue Montorgueil, à Paris. Celebration of June 30, 1878, 1878
Oil on canvas. H. 81,0 ; L. 50,0 cm.
Dation, 1982
© Musée d'Orsay, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Patrice Schmidt

The Rue Montorgueil, like its twin painting
The Rue Saint-Denis
(Rouen, musée des Beaux-arts), is often thought to depict a 14 July celebration. In fact it was painted on 30 June 1878 for a festival declared that year by the government celebrating "peace and work". This was one of the events organised for the third Universal Exhibition in Paris a few weeks after it opened, and intended to be a symbol of France's recovery after the defeat of 1870.

This painting proposes a distanced vision of an urban landscape by a painter who did not mix with the crowd, but observed it from a window. The three colours vibrating in Monet's painting are those of modern France.
The impressionist technique, with its multitude of small strokes of colour, suggests the animation of the crowd and the wavering of flags. This allowed the American historian Philip Nord to write that it perfectly fits the "republican moment" marking the emergence of a democratic society and its roots in contemporary France. With this painting, Monet revealed a hidden aspect of modernity, while simultaneously achieving the work of a "reporter".

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