Paris Street; Rainy Day
1877 · Oil on canvas · Art Institute of Chicago
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About this work
- Artist
- Gustave Caillebotte (1848–1894)
- Year
- 1877
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original size
- 212.2 × 276.2 cm
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Movement
- Impressionism
A well-dressed couple under a single umbrella walk toward the viewer across the wet cobbles of the Place de Dublin, near the Gare Saint-Lazare, in a Paris of wide new boulevards and tall uniform apartment blocks built under Baron Haussmann. A lamp post splits the canvas, umbrellas recede in every direction and the figures at the edges are cropped as if by a camera. Caillebotte painted the huge canvas in 1877 and showed it at the third Impressionist exhibition, where it stood out for its smooth finish and careful perspective, closer to academic practice than to the broken touch of Monet. The scene is modern life observed with detachment. The Art Institute of Chicago acquired it in 1964, and it is among the most visited paintings there.
This exhibition-poster edition shows the whole work beneath original typography set in-house. The original is in the public domain.
Where it works
Grey cobbles, umbrellas and uniform apartment blocks give this a cool, orderly mood for a hallway, entry or office at 24×36, where the perspective pulls the eye down a corridor. Black frame on a pale grey wall; it suits modern, spare rooms.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Exhibition poster of a Impressionism painting
- Era
- 19th century (1877)
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Palette
- cream & beige
- Mood
- classic
- Rooms
- hallway or entryway, home office, living room, dining room, dorm room
- Good gift for
- housewarming, art lovers
Size. We'd hang this one at 24×36. Prints at 12×18, 16×24, 24×36 in — 12×18 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 16×24 above a desk, console or in a hallway; 24×36 as the statement piece above a sofa or bed.
Framing. Exhibition posters sit best in a slim black frame with no mat — the typeset margin is the mat.
Pairing. Pairs as a set of three with other famous painting prints (10% off three or more).
Details & materials
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About this design
The Madten promise
A fine-art print
The same artwork as a clean fine-art print — the image shown large with a minimal caption.
The full-bleed edition
The same plate printed edge-to-edge, filling the whole sheet — bold and immersive.
