Paris Street; Rainy Day, 1877
Gustave Caillebotte
Oil on canvas
Umbrella-carrying Parisians cross a wet, geometrically precise boulevard.
Parisians share umbrellas across a wet, gleaming boulevard in Caillebotte's huge 1877 canvas. Its bold cropping and photographic realism capture the cool elegance of the modern, rebuilt city — an unmistakable image of nineteenth-century Paris.
What you're looking at
The lamppost splits the canvas almost exactly in half, which is the kind of thing painters are told not to do, and Caillebotte does it deliberately to cut the picture into two separate scenes. The perspective of the buildings is constructed with drafting precision — he trained as an engineer. The couple in the foreground are cropped by the frame as a camera would crop them, and nobody in the painting is looking at anybody else.
On a Frame TV
About 1.31:1. Clean crop takes the buildings above and the wet cobbles below, so the matted file keeps the street. Cool, silvery and even — a daylight picture that suits a bright room.
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