Tag: Pierre Carrier-Belleuse
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01 Painting, Streets of Paris, Laureano Barrau Buñol’s Les plaisirs de Paris, with footnotes, Part 86
Belle Époque Paris was a city full of pleasures. A celebrated pocket guide to the city’s newest and newsworthy haunts, aptly titled Les plaisirs de Paris (written by the journalist Alfred Delvau and first published 1867), an advertisement for which is visible at the center of the painting, promised readers entrée into la ville du…