French flags hang from the pale facades of a long Paris street seen from above, their reds, whites and blues fluttering down both sides. A horse-drawn cab and a few figures move along the sunlit road, and in the left foreground a hunched man on crutches walks past a fence, with a ladder lying in the street. The colors are light and quickly brushed, and the signature at lower left reads "Manet 1878." Édouard Manet painted the street from his second-floor studio window on June 30, 1878, a national holiday, the Fête de la Paix, declared to mark the Exposition Universelle and France's recovery from the Franco-Prussian War and the Commune.

The J. Paul Getty Museum notes the patriotic harmony of the flags, and how the amputee on crutches, perhaps a war veteran or a beggar, passing debris fenced off for a new train track, tempers the picture's optimism. Manet often painted the passersby he could see from his studio above the street, which is now the Rue de Berne. The painting later belonged to Auguste Pellerin and to Paul Mellon, and the Getty bought it at Christie's in New York in 1989.

It is in the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles.