Street in Paris

Paris around the year 1900 was a city which was a favoured destination among Polish artists. It became the home of Stanisław Ludwik de Laveaux (1868-1894), a Frenchman born and raised in Poland. De Laveaux, previously educated in Kraków and Munich, arrived in Paris in 1889.
As he wrote to his family: “Paris is a horrible city, so large that a man gets lost in it like a fly on the wind, and in order to get anywhere he must work, work very hard.” The painter was interested by the modern metropolis, lit by streetlamps. The painting Street in Paris shows the moment of dusk, when the streetlamps have been lit. We see a junction and the perspective of the street with tall, big-city buildings. the painter makes use of broad strokes of the brush. He focuses his attention on the lights of the streetlamps and shop windows.