Boulevard des Capucines

Monet was fascinated with the rebuilding of Paris in 1873, alive with its orange baloons and happy, colorful crowds thronging the streets. We warm to his luminous play of light and many colors of snow - dashes of inspiration. "Never before has the elusiveness of movement been captured in its fluidity as in this extraordinary Blvd. des Capucines," said a critic of the time.