Gustave Caillebotte, 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). View this work up close on the Google Art Project. Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker.
I wish I was a better communicator whenever I hear these two. They have just the right blend of jumping in respectfully and letting the other have his say.
I absolutely love this painting. It's even the wallpaper on my laptop! It's so clear that I feel as if I'm looking out a café window in Paris watching the world go by.
Love this painting. Gustave and many paintings like Hopper helped me with my inspiration in photography. I just love the composition and the lighting that makes it feel realistic and cinematic.
Thanks for this helpful video. There is another very large painting in the AGO collection by Tissot, I believe, of a women's accessories shop and, like Tissot, Caillebotte's subject matter speaks of the impressionists' fondness for the everyday rather than vacuous historical themes associated with typical salon artists of the day, fortunately all but forgotten. Caillebotte's studio finished canvases are far less radical in their transformation of form into light and textured brushstrokes. Rather he is essentially a salon painter with updated, contemporary themes. He bypasses the pantheon of impressionist genius by indulging in polished, facile surfaces regrettably more pre-Raphaelite in sensibility than impressionistic. At international auctions over the last seven decades, works of comparable size of a major Caillebotte and a major Monet or Renoir, or any of the other leading impressionist painters, would see a Caillebotte valued at perhaps a fifth or a sixth of a major impressionist work. Except for his impressionist themes he is all but a distant cousin to the astonishing achievements and magnificent radicalism of the leading impressionist painters of his era. What he lacks in visionary execution he pleases the eye with his somewhat antiquated and formulaic technique.
Maybe someone can verify this! This viewpoint seems to be facing north east which would make the lighting and shadows not possible. Some creative license?
nice info but the playful jumping off the wagon wheel is off imo. it doesn't look like that, I think the perspective is right here. just looks like a dude further away
eye opening - i was unfamiliar with Caillebotte - i'm ashamed to admit - but i won't be for long ps -- his Rainy Day was so good - i expected more of that quality - but i found most of his work rather dreary or boring
