How many Boulevard Montmartre paintings did Camille Pissarro create in 1897?

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Camille Pissarro: Self-Portrait — Camille Pissarro *Self-Portrait*, oil on canvas by Camille Pissarro, 1873; in the Musée d'Orsay, Paris.

French artist Camille Pissarro created a series of fourteen oil-on-canvas paintings of the Boulevard Montmartre in 1897.1

He produced these works between the winter and spring of that year while working from a rented room in the Grand Hôtel de Russie. By painting the same scene at different times of day and under varying weather conditions, Pissarro aimed to explore the changing effects of light and color, a central preoccupation of Impressionism.12