The Rue Mosnier Dressed with Flags

The Rue Mosnier with Flags is an 1878 oil on canvas painting by Édouard Manet, showing the eponymous Parisian street, decorated with French flags for the first national holiday on 30 June 1878, the Fête de la Paix (Celebration of Peace).

The Fête de la Paix was held during that year's Exposition Universelle, which together marked France's recovery after the Franco-Prussian War and the Paris Commune.

It was painted from an upstairs window, with tricolour flags hanging from the buildings along the road, above passing pedestrians and carriages.

Another 1878 Manet painting of a similar scene of the Rue Monsier, decorated with flags, is held in a private collection.

It was owned by the Hungarians Marcell Nemes and then Baron Mór Lipót Herzog, and it was sold before 1932 to German banker Jakob Goldschmidt.