The Floor Scrapers

Gustave Caillebotte

1875 · Oil on canvas · Musée d'Orsay, Paris

Size2:3 ratio

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About this work

Artist: Gustave Caillebotte (1848–1894)
Year: 1875
Medium: Oil on canvas
Original size: 102 × 146.5 cm
Collection: Musée d'Orsay, Paris
Movement: Impressionism

Three workmen, stripped to the waist, kneel on the floor of a Paris apartment planing the parquet, the curled shavings around them and light from the window picking out their arms and backs. Caillebotte painted it in 1875 at the age of twenty-six, and it is one of the first serious pictures of the urban working class. He had trained in the academic studio of Bonnat, and it shows: the steep perspective, the aligned floorboards and the figures drawn one by one before being transferred to the canvas. But the subject was new, and the Salon jury of 1875 rejected it as vulgar. Caillebotte then joined the Impressionists and showed it at their second exhibition in 1876, where its cool, documentary realism struck critics as a great modern picture. His family gave it to the state in 1894, and it is now in the Musée d'Orsay.

This exhibition-poster edition shows the whole work beneath original typography set in-house. The original is in the public domain.

Details & materials

• Exhibition poster — original, drawn in-house • Heavyweight matte fine-art paper, giclée printed at 300 DPI • Sizes: 12×18, 16×24, 24×36 in; 16×24 and 24×36 also available framed in black or natural wood • Made to order; colours may vary slightly from screen

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Produced in 2–4 business days, then shipped from the facility nearest you. Delivery is typically 3–6 business days (US/UK/EU) and 5–12 worldwide. Because each print is made to order we don't take change-of-mind returns, but if it arrives damaged or flawed we'll reprint or refund it — no return needed. Full policy →

Is this the whole painting, or a crop?

The whole work, uncropped. The exhibition-poster edition sets the complete image above typography designed in-house.

Is The Floor Scrapers (Les Raboteurs de parquet) in the public domain?

Yes. Gustave Caillebotte (1848–1894) died more than 70 years ago and the work was published before 1929, so the painting itself is public domain. This print is a reproduction made from a high-resolution scan of the original, which is held by Musée d'Orsay.

What is it printed on?

Heavyweight matte fine-art paper with pigment inks, made to order in 12×18, 16×24 and 24×36 inches; the two larger sizes are also offered framed. Colours are matched to the scan, not brightened.

When was The Floor Scrapers (Les Raboteurs de parquet) painted, and in what medium?

The Floor Scrapers (Les Raboteurs de parquet) dates from 1875 and was made in oil on canvas; the original measures 102 × 146.5 cm.

What size works above a sofa or bed?

For a standard three-seat sofa or a queen bed, 24×36 inches reads as a single statement piece; 16×24 suits a narrower wall or a pairing. The print's proportions follow the original, so a landscape-format painting is wider than it is tall.

About this design

A museum-exhibition poster of Gustave Caillebotte's The Floor Scrapers — The Floor Scrapers — three bare-backed workers planing a parquet floor in a shaft of window light — shown whole and uncropped beneath gallery typography. Impressionism and Modern Life, styled as a blockbuster exhibition print. A gallery-style exhibition poster: a celebrated public-domain artwork shown whole and uncropped beneath original exhibition typography set in-house — printed to order on heavyweight matte fine-art paper. Three sizes (12×18, 16×24, 24×36 in); the 16×24 and 24×36 are also offered framed. Part of the Madten Exhibition Posters Collection. — — — Printed to order and shipped by our production partner, Gelato.

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