Boulevard

In street scenes of the 1890s, such as the 12 lithographs and cover published by Vollard as Quelques aspects de la vie de Paris (1899), no part of the bustling life of Paris escaped his eye: the children on their way to school in their hooded cloaks; the policeman; the cabs waiting along the boulevard with their scrawny horses; the covert movements of those passing women who lift their long skirts before stepping up on to a pavement or adjust a beribboned hat.

The picture shows one of the 12 lithographs of the series.