Alexandrovitch Tarkhoff, Boulevard des Italiens at Night, 1900, oil on canvas, Geneva, Petit Palais
© © Studio Monique Bernaz, Geneva

The spectacle of merchandise

Museum of Fine Arts of Caen

The commercial revolution of the 19th century transformed the city. From Pissarro to Steilen, artists were privileged witnesses to these economic, visual, and social upheavals: department stores, Haussmannian architecture, urban advertising arsenal, the birth of shopping…

Internet: https://mba.caen.fr/exposition/le-spectacle-de-la-marchandise | Alexandrowitch Tarkhoff, Boulevard des Italiens at Night, 1900, oil on canvas, Geneva, Petit Palais | Maximilien Luce, Construction Site, The Excavation, 1912, oil on canvas, private collection | © Indianapolis Museum of Art, The Holliday Collection | Félix Vallotton, The Good Market, 1893, wood engraving

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