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Your art history post for today: by Louis Anquetin (1861-1932), Avenue de Clichy, Five O’Clock in the Evening, 1887, oil on paper, mounted on canvas, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut. More in ALT. #arthistory #Art

From the museum: ‘Louis Anquetin’s Avenue de Clichy (Street – Five O’ Clock in the Evening) has been praised as “the” masterpiece by the French artist. Created in 1887, this painting introduced a new artistic language depicting contemporary Parisian street life.

Here, Anquetin has moved away from the grim realism and impressionistic experiments still favored by many of his contemporaries, to push the aesthetic norms and boundaries of the time. With few colors, simplified forms, and a cropped image reminiscent of photographic snapshots, Anquetin positioned himself at the artistic vanguard of this period.’