Paris Street Rainy Day
Caillebotte also painted portraits and figure studies boating scenes and rural landscapes and decorative studies of flowers.
Paris street rainy day. It seems nothing like monet s depiction of the rouen cathedral or renoir s le moulin. Caillebotte s masterpiece paris street. Rainy day is discussed. 1877 dimensions 212 2 276 2 cm 83 1 2 108 3 4 in credit line charles h.
Analysis of paris street rainy day by caillebotte in this masterpiece caillebotte imparts an unusual monumentality and compositional virtuosity to the sort of typical everyday scene favoured by impressionists in this case the bold new boulevards introduced by baron haussmann 1809 91 that transformed the paris landscape. Other articles where paris street. Rainy day origin paris date made 1877 medium oil on canvas inscriptions inscribed at lower left. With its curiously detached figures the canvas depicts the anonymity that the boulevards seemed to create.
The picture paris street rainy day was painted showing rue de turin s eastern side located north toward the place de dublin. A rainy day with fine brush strokes and a placid color tone it hardly seems educated to classify caillebotte as a serious impressionist painter. The result is at once real and contrived casual and choreographed. This painting was regarded as one of the best known works of gustave caillebotte.
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. Paris street rainy day is an oil painting produced in 1877 by the french painter gustave caillebotte. Oil on canvas for a painting as tranquil as paris street. A rainy day 1877.
Worcester collection reference number 1964 336 extended information about this artwork. In his masterpiece paris street.