The Rue Mosnier with flags

The Rue Mosnier with flags (French: La Rue Mosnier aux drapeaux) is the title of a painting by Édouard Manet. He painted it on 30 June 1878 in honor of the national holiday. Today it is on display at the the j. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. ==Version[ Edit] == The French-German war of 1870-71 and the ensuing Paris Commune, had deep wounds in France. The first years were marked by great political struggles. Only towards the end of the decade the country ended up in calmer waters. The French Government seized the world exhibition of 1878 in Paris to renewed self-awareness to show to the world. To underline was 30 June 1878 to national holiday proclaimed, the fête de la paix (peace party). On this day there was in Paris an exuberant and festive mood with festivities late into the night. Two years later the Government chose a new date for the feast day: July 14.

From 1872 to 1878 possessed Manet a Studio in the Rue de Saint-Petersbourg in a newly constructed part of the 8th arrondissement. [1]  From his window looked out on theRue Mosnier, nowadays the Rue de Berne. On 30 June was this street, like the rest of Paris, decorated with the French tricolour, a aanhankelijkheids to the young Republic.Manet put this scene and the preparations insist in surefire brush strokes on a number of canvases and drawings fixed.

Manet was not the only painter who started on 30 June. Claude Monet also completed the feast day fixed, for example on The Rue Montorgueil in Paris. Where this last painting stands out for the jubilant mood that emanates The Rue Mosnier with flags, has a more ambiguous character. In addition to the flags, the carriages and the elegantly dressed people is left to see a disabled man on crutches, perhaps a veteran of the past war. [2]  He runs along an area where debris is left behind from the extension of the Railway yard of the nearby Gare Saint-Lazare. As previously in works such as the old musician Manet clearly had an eye for the shadow sides of the prosperity and progress.