B. COTTENCEAU
The old station's windows
The first station at St Lazare was 200 m north-west of its current position, called Embarcadère des Batignolles. The station was opened by Marie-Amélie (wife of Louis-Philippe of France) on 24 August 1837. The first line served was the single track line to Le Pecq. In 1843 St-Lazare was the terminus for three lines; by 1900 this number had tripled.
The Gare Saint-Lazare has been represented in a number of artworks. It attracted artists during the Impressionist period and many of them lived very close to the Gare St-Lazare during the 1870s and 1880s.
Édouard Manet lived close by, at 4 rue de Saint-Pétersbourg. In 1877, painter Claude Monet rented a studio near the Gare Saint Lazare. That same year he exhibited seven paintings of the railway station in an impressionist painting exhibition. Le Quartier de l'Europe, where artists like Claude Monet and Gustave Caillebotte spent a lot of time and painted was, in short, a paradigm of modern Paris.
In 1932, the wasteland behind the station became the subject of one of the most celebrated photographs of all time, Henri Cartier-Bresson's "Derrière la gare de Saint-Lazare".
In Raymond Queneau's 1947 book "Exercises in Style", the Gare Saint-Lazare serves as the backdrop to much of the story's action.
In 1998 the Musée D'Orsay and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., put on an exhibition called "Manet, Monet, and the Gare Saint-Lazare".
The Gare Saint-Lazare is mentioned or plays a role in Émile Zola's "La Bête humaine" and Roland Sadaune's "Terminus St-Lazare".
The Gare Saint-Lazare is seen in the 1995 film "French Kiss" with Kevin Kline and Meg Ryan ...
The old station's windows
The first station at St Lazare was 200 m north-west of its current position, called Embarcadère des Batignolles. The station was opened by Marie-Amélie (wife of Louis-Philippe of France) on 24 August 1837. The first line served was the single track line to Le Pecq. In 1843 St-Lazare was the terminus for three lines; by 1900 this number had tripled.
The Gare Saint-Lazare has been represented in a number of artworks. It attracted artists during the Impressionist period and many of them lived very close to the Gare St-Lazare during the 1870s and 1880s.
Édouard Manet lived close by, at 4 rue de Saint-Pétersbourg. In 1877, painter Claude Monet rented a studio near the Gare Saint Lazare. That same year he exhibited seven paintings of the railway station in an impressionist painting exhibition. Le Quartier de l'Europe, where artists like Claude Monet and Gustave Caillebotte spent a lot of time and painted was, in short, a paradigm of modern Paris.
In 1932, the wasteland behind the station became the subject of one of the most celebrated photographs of all time, Henri Cartier-Bresson's "Derrière la gare de Saint-Lazare".
In Raymond Queneau's 1947 book "Exercises in Style", the Gare Saint-Lazare serves as the backdrop to much of the story's action.
In 1998 the Musée D'Orsay and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., put on an exhibition called "Manet, Monet, and the Gare Saint-Lazare".
The Gare Saint-Lazare is mentioned or plays a role in Émile Zola's "La Bête humaine" and Roland Sadaune's "Terminus St-Lazare".
The Gare Saint-Lazare is seen in the 1995 film "French Kiss" with Kevin Kline and Meg Ryan ...