Flower Seller and Gendarme on the Boulevard — Victor Gabriel Gilbert

Golden autumn light filters through the boulevard trees as a flower seller with a basket of blue hydrangeas pauses to talk with a gendarme, a grand colonnaded building rising behind them and the ordinary traffic of Paris — strolling couples, a passing motor car — filling out the rest of the street. It's Victor Gabriel Gilbert at his most classically "Parisian boulevard," the scene that gives this whole collection its character: everyday city life dressed in soft, sunlit color. The card works equally well framed as a small piece of belle-époque Paris or sent to anyone who loves street-life and city imagery. Printed at 10×15 cm on 350 g/m² stock. Explore more café-and-street scenes in the city and streets collection.