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The Move Toward

Modernism

ca. 1875–1900

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Figure 31.1 CAMILLE PISSARRO, Le Boulevard Montmartre: Rainy Weather, Afternoon, 1897.

Oil on canvas, 20^5 ⁄ 8 26 in. In his long career, Pissarro painted hundreds of rural and urban

landscapes. His techniques in capturing the effects of light influenced the work of his fellow

Impressionists. Nevertheless, he sold very few paintings in his lifetime.

“Is not the nineteenth century ... a century of decadence?”

Nietzsche