Street in Paris on a rainy day
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| Street in Paris on a rainy day |
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| Gustave Caillebotte , 1877 |
| Oil on canvas |
| 212.2 x 276 cm |
| Art Institute of Chicago |
Street in Paris on a rainy day (German also: Paris, on a Regentag , French Rue de Paris, temps de pluie , English Paris Street; Rainy Day or Paris: A Rainy Day ) is the title of an oil painting by the French impressionist Gustave from 1877 Caillebotte . The 212.2 by 276 cm painting now hangs in the Art Institute of Chicago .
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The painting shows a view of the neo-classical Paris rebuilt under Georges-Eugène Haussmann (1809-1891) . The streets shown in the picture are known: They are the Rue de Turin , which runs from the foreground to the background, and the Rue de Moscou, which branches off to the left . Rue Capeyron can be seen in the background . It's a cloudy, rainy day. In the right foreground a man and a woman are approaching the viewer - a little further ahead another passer-by is cut off, who is tilting his umbrella to one side so as not to collide with the couple. With a height of over two meters, these three figures are life-size.
The signature is near the lower left corner: G. Caillebotte. 1877 .
Execution and motif
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Caillebotte made numerous preliminary drawings and oil sketches - as random as this street scene appears, it is actually constructed so carefully: the green lantern divides the picture into two halves of equal size, each with its own vanishing point . The details are also meticulously executed: every fold on the clothes of the people in the front right is visible: the shadowed fur collar of the woman can be clearly distinguished from her fabric coat, and her dotted veil can also be seen. The screen shows the typical folds of the fabric stretched over the spokes, and Caillebotte has already captured the reflections on the paving stones in oil sketches. The clothes clearly identify the people depicted as belonging to the middle classes.
It is not the style of painting that is impressionist, but the choice of the random everyday motif, the cut figures and the unusual playful perspective: the umbrellas could collide. In addition, it gives the impression that we are walking on the sidewalk ourselves and encountering each other. This is all in contrast to history painting , which always captures a significant moment as the climax of a previous event.
Provenance
Caillebotte first showed the painting to the public at the third impressionism exhibition in Paris in 1877. The gallery Durand-Ruel presented it in June 1894 in a retrospective of the works of Caillebotte in Paris.
The work remained in the artist's family until 1950. Brokered by Wildenstein & Company , Walter P. Chrysler Jr., son of the automobile manufacturer Walter Percy Chrysler , acquired it for his collection in 1954. In 1964 it was sold to the Art Institute of Chicago. An oil sketch of the painting is in the Musée Marmottan in Paris, other preparatory oil studies are in private hands. In addition, there are preparatory drawings of the overall composition or of individual details of the painting.
The painting was shown in a number of exhibitions in the United States from 1956 . Between September 1994 and January 1995 it returned to Paris for a retrospective by Gustave Caillebotte at the Grand Palais , which was then shown in Chicago and Los Angeles .
reception
Gloria Gloom, curator of the Art Institute, describes the picture as “ … the great picture of urban life in the late 19th century. ”(German:“… the big picture of urban life in the late 19th century. ”) The photographer Thomas Struth contributed to the awareness of the picture with a photograph from his series of museum pictures, on which the painting can be seen in the museum. In 2019 it was shown in the Alte Nationalgalerie in Berlin.
Web links
- Analysis of the painting on the Art Institute of Chicago website
Individual evidence
- ↑ David Jordan: The New Creation of Paris. Baron GE Haussmann and his city . Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-10-037714-1
- ^ Art Institute of Chicago: Paris Street; Rainy Day artic.edu; accessed on June 23, 2019
- ↑ a b Florian Heine: With the eyes of the painter. Rediscovered arenas of art . CJ Bucher, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-7658-1612-3 , p. 107 ff.
- ^ Norma Broude: Gustave Caillebotte and the Fashioning of Identity in Impressionist Paris. Rutgers University Press, 2002, p. 19.
- ^ Andrea Frey: The urban space in French painting 1860–1890. Berlin 1999, pp. 163-172.
- ^ Anne Distel: Gustave Caillebotte, Urban Impressionist , pages 116-139
- ^ Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories . The Art Institute of Chicago
- ↑ Hedy Weiss: Gustave Who? In: Chicago Sun-Times , February 12, 1995.
- ^ Thomas Struth: Museum Photographs: Art Institute of Chicago II, Chicago (1990) . Art Institute Chicago; accessed on June 19, 2019
- ^ Exhibition website