The Impressionist and patron of other artists Gustave Caillebotte (1848 – 1894) painted the Boulevard in many different lights as the days and seasons changed.
Boulevard Haussmann, running 2.53 kilometres fromthe 8th to the 9th arrodissement, is one of the wide tree-lined boulevards created in Paris during the Second French Empire by Baron Haussmann, with enthusiastic support from Napaleon III. Man on a Balcony, Boulevard Haussmann (Homme au balcon, boulevard Haussmann) (1880), sold for more than US$14.3 million in 2000.