Paris Street Rainy Day Impressionist

It seems nothing like monet s depiction of the rouen cathedral or renoir s le moulin.

Paris street rainy day impressionist. Rainy day the artist represents both. Gustave caillebotte paris street rainy day is the best known work of french artist gustave caillebotte 1848 1894. In 1955 it was purchased by walter p. 1877 dimensions 212 2 276 2 cm 83 1 2 108 3 4 in credit line charles h.

The figures in the foreground wear fine clothing while the woman in the background on the right wears an apron. Rainy day fits into the genre to answer this question we must first look at the painting s context beginning with the story of its creator. Painted in 1877 paris street. The painting paris street.

In his masterpiece paris street. Rainy day origin paris date made 1877 medium oil on canvas inscriptions inscribed at lower left. It s an unromantic realistic painting during peak impressionism. With its curiously detached figures the canvas depicts the anonymity that the boulevards seemed to create.

A rainy day 1877. He knows how to draw and paints more seriously than his friends. A rainy day with fine brush strokes and a placid color tone it hardly seems educated to classify caillebotte as a serious impressionist painter. Piano music playing beth.

Caillebotte shared the impressionists interest in the fashionable lifestyle of the new middle class the lives of the working class and the modern urban spaces they inhabit. With such a seemingly disparate aesthetic however you may be wondering how paris street. We see 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 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.

He gives us a slice of life. Rainy day snapshots a beautiful moment on a typical even dull day french painter gustave caillebotte titled this rue de paris wet weather a simple name its plainness points to the piece s subject. The result is at once real and contrived casual and choreographed. Displayed at the third of the impressionist exhibitions held in april 1877 paris street rainy day was kept within the family until the mid twentieth century.

When caillebotte paris street rainy day was exhibited in 1877 at the impressionist exhibition one anonymous reviewer wrote caillebotte is an impressionist in name only. Rainy day is one of gustave caillebotte s most celebrated paintings and a key piece of impressionism. 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. Chrysler jr who in 1964 resold it to the art institute of chicago.

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.