You have entered the place where art history gains the voice it deserves. It does not take long to realise that Caillebotte’s work is not typical of the overall Impressionist style.

His father, Martial Caillebotte (1799–1874), had inherited family’s military textile business. The painting’s highly crafted surface, rigorous perspective, and grand scale differed from what Gustave Caillebotte, Paris Street; Rainy Day, 1877, Art Institute of Chicago, detail.While creating this masterpiece, he was a 29-year-old independent wealthy artist who was also financing many of his friends’ works. In Gustave Caillebotte. In many ways, Caillebotte’s frozen poetry of the Parisian bourgeoisie prefigures Georges Seurat’s luminous 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. ISBN 0-300-03722-8 (fr) Vinciguerra, Marjorie. A Thousand and One Swabs: The Transformation of “Paris Street; Rainy Day” Caillebotte’s skill and originality are evident even in the book’s reproductions, and the essays offer critical insights into his inspiration and subjects.

Gustave Caillebotte. Caillebotte was a friend of many of the impressionist painters, and this painting is … He reproduces the effect of a camera lens in that the points at the center of the image seem to bulge. Caillebotte also painted portraits and figure studies, boating scenes and rural landscapes, and decorative studies of flowers. Paris Street; Rainy Day, 1877. Perhaps one of the most recognisable paintings of 19 th century France, Gustave Caillebote’s ‘Paris Street; Rainy Day’ is an intriguing view of a less optimistic side of Paris often expressed in the paintings of the Impressionists. The painting’s highly crafted surface, rigorous perspective, and grand scale pleased Parisian audiences accustomed to the academic aesthetic of the official Salon. For these reasons, the painting dominated the celebrated Impressionist exhibition of 1877, largely organized by the artist himself.

We will treat your information with respect. 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, Jr., New York, 1954 [per J. Kirk T. Varnedoe and Thomas P. Lee, Gustave Caillebotte: A Retrospective Exhibition, with contributions by J. Kirk T. Varnedoe, Marie Berhaut, Peter Galassi, and Hilarie Faberman, exh. Caillebotte’s painting “Paris Street; Rainy Day” (“Rue de Paris, temps de pluie”), completed in 1877 and now an icon of Impressionism, is coming to the Alte Nationalgalerie.

Caillebotte's father was twice widowed before marrying Caillebotte's mother, Céleste Daufresne (1819–1878), who had two more sons after Gustave: René (1851–1876) and Martial (1853–1910). Caillebotte was born at home on rue du Faubourg-Saint-Denis in Paris, and lived there until 1866, when his father had a home built on 77 rue de Miromesnil. In this monumental urban view, which measures almost seven by ten feet and is considered the artist’s masterpiece, Caillebotte strikingly captured a vast, stark modernity, complete with life-size figures strolling in the foreground and wearing the latest fashions.

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Highlights Tour of Gustave Caillebotte Paris Street, Rainy Day “Paris Street, Rainy Day” by Gustave Caillebotte is his best-known work and depicts Parisians walking in the rain through the Place de Dublin in 1877 Paris. Gustave Caillebotte's best-known work, Paris Street: Rainy Day (above), painted in 1877, shows a vast cobblestone street, stretching out in front of looming, wedge-shaped buildings. Grace Dalrymple Elliott by Thomas Gainsborough is one such showpiece.