Rue Saint-Lazare, Paris
1897
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
1897
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
You see a busy Paris street on a gray day—wet pavement, horse-drawn cabs, people hurrying under umbrellas. Pissarro made this as a print, not a painting. He drew quickly, right on the stone, so the lines feel alive. It’s like a snapshot of city life over a hundred years ago. If you like this, look up *impasto*—a thick-paint technique that gives some of Pissarro’s other works their texture.
