# Rue Montorgueil in Paris, Celebration of 30 June 1878 [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MONET, Claude]() - Date: 1851-1900 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 81 x 51 cm ## Commentary Flags were flown on 30 June, 1878, to mark the opening of the Great Exhibition. On that day, a sea of flags was fluttering in the wind, and countless people filled the streets. Monet chose a high vantage point in order to emphasize the huge gathering of people. Viewed at close quarters, the milling throng gives the illusion of an ethereal carpet of colour. It is not until one is at a certain distance from the painting that the concrete aspect of the picture comes into focus, and the people on the streets become recognizable as well as the individual flags, which look as though they have been released from the façades of the houses to the left and right. ## Related artworks - [A Cart on the Snowy Road at Honfleur]() - [A Corner of the Hoschedé Garden at Montgeron]() - [A Field of Poppies]() - [Argenteuil]() - [Beach at Sainte-Adresse]() - [Boats on the Beach at Étretat]() - [Bordighera]() - [Boulevard des Capucines]() - [Boulevard Saint-Denis, Argenteuil, in Winter]() - [Bouquet of Flowers]() - [Bouquet of Sunflowers]() - [Bridge over a Pond of Water Lilies]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()