Two of its most regular customers Degas and Manet have a fair claim to being among the period’s very best and most original painters. This was Montmartre’s most famous artistic Impressionist-era café. Point 4 Site of The Nouvelle Athènes (New Athens) artists’ café Anarchists talked about anarchist ideals and, later in the evening, the lesbian community also met here. The clientele consisted of a bohemian set of artists, writers and journalists.

Point 3 The Rat Mort (Dead Rat) artists’ café You can find a link to that page from point two. I have a whole page dedicated to Picasso and the birth of Cubism in which I examine some of the key artists and paintings leading up to the Cubist fracture. Pablo Picasso and the French artist Georges Braque developed a new geometrical way of painting here. I look at some of his most famous paintings. Georges Seurat was a brilliant Neo-Impressionist artist who died young. You can find out more about the lively Rue des Abbesses on the Rue des Abbesses page of that walk. Abbesses métro station is also the start and finishing point of the walk 1 upper Montmartre. Hector Guimard’s Art Nouveau entrance to the station is one of only three remaining original métro constructions in Paris. Walk 2, map of lower Montmartre – Pigalle route and points of interest of the Montmartre walking tour Montmartre Artists’ Studios © OpenStreetMap contributors, the Open Database Licence (ODbL). Links will lead you to this more extensive material as you move round.

Much more detailed information on the artists, paintings and places encountered on the walk will be found in pages dedicated to: Picasso and Cubism, Degas, Toulouse-Lautrec and the Paris Jazz Age. My introduction to the lower Montmartre – Pigalle circuit can be found on this page. Please download the map which will help to guide you from point to point. These are the 18 points on the lower Montmartre – Pigalle route.

Lower Montmartre – Pigalle: artists, paintings, studios and jazz

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