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Find where the lamppost divides the scene, then compare the couple’s size with the pedestrians beyond them. Notice how much empty pavement lies between the groups.
Caillebotte painted a junction near his Paris home, making the city’s broad streets the setting for encounters between strangers. Wet cobbles and repeated umbrellas establish the weather without visible falling rain. The close couple, the passerby cut off at the right, and the much smaller distant figures make the same street feel both crowded and open.
Oil on canvas · 212.2 × 276.2 cm · Art Institute of Chicago · Impressionism
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- Museum title
- Paris Street; Rainy Day
- Artist
- Gustave Caillebotte (French, 1848–1894)
- Date
- 1877
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 212.2 × 276.2 cm (83 1/2 × 108 3/4 in.); Framed: 241.3 × 306.1 × 10.2 cm (95 × 120 1/2 × 4 in.)
- Credit line
- Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.