Okay Dopers, how about a painting this time?

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Yesteray I posted this thread and got the answer i almost no time flat.

Today I’m trying to identify a painting with about as much to go on.

My grandparents(long deceased) had a framed print of this painting in their home. I know nothing of Paris geography. It’s an impressionist painting that show people strolling along a stret next to a river I’ll guess is the Seine, because that’s he only Paris river whose name I know.

A least a few of he strolling women are wearing red hats and there are a few visible french flags. The upper right of the painting is occupied by Notre Dame Cathedral. My guess is that it’s a spring scene because there are quite a few trees that make it seem that way to me.

I had it in my head that it is a Manet painting but have found nothing online to support that notion. I asked my mom - she doesn’t remember it at all, which is a different matter all together.

In the mean time I’m being plagued by a browser hijacker and have to divert my attention away from searching tend to that.

I knowyou can help. I just know it.

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This here came to mind, but fails on several of your criteria. (At least there’s a red umbrella which could’ve been misrememberd as a hat!)

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Can you be more specific about the style of the painting? You said you thought it might have been Manet; looking at some of his paintings, would you say that the style of this painting was more like Manet, or more “fluid” looking, like Monet or Matisse or Cezanne?

Also, how sure are you about Notre Dame de Paris being the cathedral in the painting?

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Nothing like your description, but Paris Street, Rainy Day by Gustave Caillebotte is what I thought of when you said Paris and people walking.

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Same same. So I got nothin’.

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I have found a lot that come close, but I think your best bet is to google images with something like ‘French impressionist painting paris’ and add things as you go along like ‘red umbrella’ or ‘rain’ or ‘notre dame’. One of them might trip a memory, or even be the one you’re looking for.

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Thank you all for your suggestions. This was a case of seriously missing the mark (on my part, not yours).

This is what my grandparents had:
Monet’s Terrasse à Saint-Adresse

I believe there exists, in a similar style a paiting like what I described in my OP.

In my vague memory of it the street bisects the painting diagoanally from the lower left, the cathedral appears to be some distance away, the strolling figures are dressed similarly to the people in the linked painting. I think now that the flags only exist in that one as well. The street is lined with full spring green trees.

There was a Monet exhibit that hit NY when I was a HS senior. Maybe I saw it then.

Or I made it all up in my head.

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http://www.monetpainting.net/paintings/ruedenis.php?search_by=cityscape ?

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Monet’s “Claude Boulevard”, perhaps?
http://www.zazzle.com/monet_claude_boulevard_des_capucines_1873_techniq_postcard-239510276479585035