Paris in the Belle Époque
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In Paris, the Belle Époque saw the construction of the Eiffel Tower, the Métro, the completion of the Opera, the Rue Réaumur and the beginning of the Basilica of Sacré-Cœur on Montmartre. Three lavish
Paris in 1897 — Boulevard Montmartre by Camille Pissarro
The Hôtel de Ville after it was burned by the Paris Commune (May 1871)
The walls of the Tuileries Palace after arson by the Commune
Ruins of the Ministry of Finance on the Rue de Rivoli
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
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Comte Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Montfa, known as Toulouse-Lautrec, was a French painter, printmaker, draughtsman, caricaturist, and illustrator. His immersion in the colourful and theatr
Paris in the Belle Époque
…the movement its name. Other artists who took part included Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Berthe Morisot, Edgar Degas, Camille Pissarro, and Paul Cézanne. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901) spent much of his short life in Montmartre painting and drawing the dancers in cabarets. He produced 737 canvases in his lifetime, thousands…
Toulouse-Lautrec in 1894
Mr. Toulouse paints Mr. Lautrec (c. 1891), a photomontage by Maurice Guibert
![The Marble Polisher [wd] (1882–1887), Princeton University Art Museum, probably painted while a student of Fernand Cormon, demonstrating his classical](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/1882%2C_Toulouse-Lautrec%2C_The_Marble_Polisher.jpg/500px-1882%2C_Toulouse-Lautrec%2C_The_Marble_Polisher.jpg)
The Marble Polisher [wd] (1882–1887), Princeton University Art Museum, probably painted while a student of Fernand Cormon, demonstrating his classical training
La Toilette (1889), oil on board