1877
oil
canvas
From the collection of Art Institute of Chicago
Dominant colour
Paris Street; Rainy Day is a 1877 oil by Gustave Caillebotte, a Impressionism work, held at Art Institute of Chicago.
Here’s your rewrite: A rainy day in Paris, 1877. A man holds an umbrella near a lamppost. Couples and lone figures cross a wet street. Their reflections shimmer on the pavement. Caillebotte painted this spot near his home. He used sharp angles to show depth. The umbrellas and hats feel real, like you could touch them. See it in person at the Art Institute of Chicago.
This monumental painting is Gustave Caillebotte’s largest, most ambitious work and has been a visitor favorite since the Art Institute acquired it in 1964, well before the artist’s contributions to the Impressionist movement were widely recognized. Caillebotte captured a busy intersection of Paris that was only a short walk from his home. In fact, his paintings of Paris rarely depict areas beyond his familiar neighborhoods. Caillebotte demonstrated his affinity with the Impressionists through his subject of modern urban life but approached these settings with a more Realist technique. The…
The artist (died 1894); by descent to Martial Caillebotte (brother) and Marie Minoret (Martial’s wife), Paris, 1894 [this and the two following per Portland Art Museum, Paintings from the Collection of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., exh. cat. (Portland Art Association, 1956), p. 47. See also fact sheet provided by Wildenstein and Company, copy in curatorial object file]; placed with Georges Minoret (brother-in-law of Martial Caillebotte), Château de Montglat, Provins, France, 1900; Returned to Albert and Geneviève Chardeau (daughter of Martial Caillebotte), Paris, 1950; sold to Walter P. Chrysler,…
Paris, 6, rue le Peletier, 3e exposition de peinture [third Impressionist exhibition], Apr. 1877, cat. 1, as Rue de Paris; Temps de pluie. Paris, Durand-Ruel, Exposition rétrospective d’oeuvres de G. Caillebotte, June 4–16, 1894, cat. 47. Paris, Galerie Beaux-Arts, Rétrospective Gustave Caillebotte, May 25–July 25, 1951, cat. 13. Portland (Ore.) Art Museum, Paintings from the Collection of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., Mar. 2–Apr. 15, 1956, cat. 78 (ill.); Seattle Art Museum, Apr. 27–May 27, 1956; San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, opened June 11, 1956; Los Angeles County…
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Gustave Caillebotte (French: ; 19 August 1848 – 21 February 1894) was a French painter who was a member and patron of the Impressionists, although he painted in a more realistic manner than many others in the group.
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