Paris Street Rainy Day Caillebotte

Worcester collection reference number 1964 336 extended information about this artwork.

Paris street rainy day caillebotte. Less than a decade later chrysler sold it wildenstein and company a historic art dealership who in turn sold to the art institute of chicago in 1964. These combined with the impact of the rain across the scene and helped paris street rainy day to be considered as one of caillebotte s finest works. In his masterpiece paris street. The latter is almost unique among his works for its particularly flat colors and photo realistic effect which give the painting its distinctive and modern look.

Caillebotte is best known for his paintings of urban paris such as the europe bridge le pont de l europe 1876 and paris street. Rainy day remained in the caillebotte family until 1955 when it was purchased by prolific art collector walter p. With its curiously detached figures the canvas depicts the anonymity that the boulevards seemed to create. Other articles where paris street.

Rainy day 1877 oil on canvas 83 1 2 x 108 3 4 inches 212 2 x 276 2 cm the art institute of chicago. It shows a number of individuals walking through the place de dublin then known as the carrefour de moscou at an intersection to the east of the gare saint lazare in north paris. It seems nothing like monet s depiction of the rouen cathedral or renoir s le moulin. 1877 dimensions 212 2 276 2 cm 83 1 2 108 3 4 in credit line charles h.

Gustave caillebotte paris street. Temps de pluie also known as la place de l europe temps de pluie 1877. Caillebotte s masterpiece paris street. Rainy day 1877 uses bold perspective to create a monumental portrait of a paris intersection on a rainy day.

Rainy day gustave caillebotte brought an unusual monumentality and compositional control to a typical impressionist subject the new boulevards that were changing the paris cityscape. Oil on canvas for a painting as tranquil as paris street. One of the benefits of realism is that one can almost reach out and touch this scene from the material of the clothing and umbrellas to the rain soaked pebbled path. Rue de paris temps de pluie is a large 1877 oil painting by the french artist gustave caillebotte 1848 1894 and is his best known work.

The result is at once real and contrived casual and choreographed. Caillebotte also painted portraits and figure studies boating scenes and rural landscapes and decorative studies of flowers. A rainy day with fine brush strokes and a placid color tone it hardly seems educated to classify caillebotte as a serious impressionist painter. Rainy day rue de paris.

A rainy day 1877. Rainy day origin paris date made 1877 medium oil on canvas inscriptions inscribed at lower left. Gustave caillebotte title paris street.