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Paris Street; Rainy Day (French: Rue de Paris, temps de pluie) is a large 1877 oil painting by the French artist Gustave Caillebotte (1848–1894), and is his best known work. [1] It shows a number of individuals walking through the Place de Dublin , then known as the Carrefour de Moscou, at an intersection to the east of the Gare Saint-Lazare ...
Boulevard des Capucines is the title of two oil-on-canvas paintings depicting the famous Paris boulevard by French Impressionist artist Claude Monet, created between 1873–1874. One version is vertical in format and depicts a snowy street scene looking down the boulevard towards the Place de l'Opéra . [ 1 ]
The Art Institute of Chicago, The Art of the Edge: European Frames 1300-1900, October 17-December 14, 1986, not included in catalogue. Paris, Grand Palais, Gustave Caillebotte: Urban Impressionist, September 13, 1994-January 9, 1995, cat. 35 (ill.), traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, February 18-May 28, 1995 and Los Angeles County Museum ...
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Another 1878 Manet painting of a similar scene of the Rue Monsier, decorated with flags, is held in a private collection. Similar paintings of flags on the Rue Montorgueil and Rue Saint-Denis in Paris in 1878 were made by Claude Monet, and these works were echoed by a 1917 painting of New York by Childe Hassam, The Avenue in the Rain.
The Grands Boulevards (French: Les Grands Boulevards) is an oil on canvas painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, painted in 1875. The painting illustrates a busy Paris boulevard, showing the effects of industrialisation and Haussmannisation. The image is housed at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. It is considered Renoir's most famous view of Paris.
The work of art itself is in the public domain for the following reason: Public domain Public domain false false The author died in 1925, so this work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 95 years or fewer .
The painting measures 180.3 centimetres (71.0 in) high by 114.9 centimetres (45.2 in) wide. It depicts a busy street scene in Paris, with most of the people depicted using umbrellas against the rain. To the right, a mother looks down at her daughters, each fashionably dressed in the styles of 1881 for the afternoon promenade.