Paris Street; Rainy Day  1877

by Gustave Caillebotte

This complex intersection, just minutes away from the Saint-Lazare train station, represents in microcosm the changing urban milieu of late nineteenth-century Paris. Gustave Caillebotte grew up near this district when it was a relatively unsettled hill with narrow, crooked streets. As part of a new city plan designed by Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann, these streets were re...
Size: 
212.2 x 276.2 cm (83 1/2 x 108 3/4 in.)
Medium: 
Oil on canvas
Credit: 
Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago

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  1. Amazing work.I appreciate your creativity.