Place de Thernes in Paris

Olga Boznańska was Poland's most celebrated Post-Impressionist painter, working primarily in Munich and Paris where she absorbed the lessons of Whistler, Manet, and the broader Post-Impressionist circle without abandoning her own distinctive tonal intimacy. Place des Ternes was a busy Parisian square in the 17th arrondissement, known for its flower market, and Boznańska's view from 1903 captures the square in a manner that balances the particularities of Parisian urban space with her characteristic soft, absorbed quality of looking. By this date Boznańska had lived in Paris for several years and was thoroughly integrated into the international art circles of Montparnasse. The National Museum in Warsaw holds this as part of its significant collection of Boznańska's Paris work.

Boznańska uses her characteristic grey-toned palette to render the Parisian square, with the square's architectural setting treated loosely and atmospherically rather than with topographic precision. Figures and architecture dissolve into each other in the soft urban light she consistently favored.