Paris Street; Rainy Day
Street in Paris on a rainy day ( German: Paris, on a rainy day, French: Rue de Paris, temps de pluie, English: Paris Street, Rainy Day or Paris: A Rainy Day ) is the title of a 1877 resulting oil painting of the French Impressionists Gustave Caillebotte. The 212.2 times 276 cm large painting now hangs in the Art Institute of Chicago.
Content
The painting shows a view of the under Georges- Eugène Haussmann (1809-1891) newly built neoclassical Paris. The roads shown on the picture are well known: it is the current from the front into the background Rue de Turin and the branching off to the left Rue de Moscou. In the background the Rue Capeyron can be seen. It's a dreary, rainy day. In the right foreground are the viewer a man and a woman meet - a little further forward another passer-by is touched, the screen tends to leave his side, so as not to collide with the couple. Through the image height of about two meters, these three figures are life-size.
Design and motif
Caillebotte made numerous preparatory drawings and oil sketches - so random this street scene is so carefully it is constructed in Truth: The Green Lantern divides the image into two equal halves, each with its own vanishing point. The details are set forth in minute detail: Each fold on the clothing of the characters right front is visible: The shadowed fur collar of the woman is clearly distinguished from its cloth coat, and her spotted veil can be seen. On the screen to show the typical tension on the spokes drawn folds of fabric, and the reflections on the cobbles held Caillebotte already on oil sketches fixed.
Impressionism is not the technique, but the choice of randomly appearing everyday subject. This is in contrast to history painting, which always holds a significant moment, as the culmination of a previous action.
Provenance
Caillebotte was the painting for the first time at the third Impressionist exhibition in Paris in 1877 to the public. The Galerie Durand -Ruel it presented in June 1894 in a retrospective of works by Caillebotte in Paris.
The work remained in the possession of the artist's family until 1950. Conveys of Wildenstein & Company, it acquired Walter P. Chrysler Jr., son of Walter Percy Chrysler automobile producers in 1954 for his collection. In 1964 it was sold to the Art Institute of Chicago. An oil sketch of the painting is in the Musée Marmottan in Paris, further preparatory oil studies are privately owned. There are also preparatory drawings of the overall composition or individual details of the painting.
The painting was seen in 1956 in a series of exhibitions in the United States. Between September 1994 and January 1995, returned to Paris to showcase Gustave Caillebotte at the Grand Palais, which was subsequently shown in Chicago and Los Angeles.
Reception
Gloria Gloom, curator of the Art Institute, describes the image as "... the great picture of urban life in the late 19th century. " ( German: " ... the big picture of urban life in the late 19th century. " )