Caillebotte's Paris Streets
Caillebotte painted the new streets, bridges and balconies of Haussmann's Paris in the 1870s and 1880s.
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About the series
Gustave Caillebotte was a painter and a supporter of the Impressionists, whose work he bought and helped to exhibit. Unlike many of them, he was drawn to the modern city itself: the wide boulevards, stone apartment blocks and iron bridges built in Paris under Baron Haussmann.
His best known street scenes are set near the Gare Saint-Lazare, where he lived. Paris Street; Rainy Day, shown at the Impressionist exhibition of 1877, is a large canvas of people with umbrellas crossing a wet junction, now in the Art Institute of Chicago. The Pont de l'Europe, of 1876, shows walkers on the iron railway bridge and is in the Musée du Petit Palais in Geneva. Other works look down on the boulevards from high balconies, with sharp, unusual angles and deep perspective.
Paris Street; Rainy Day is very large in the original, so the biggest size suits it best. The balcony views are smaller and pair well.
