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- Museum-grade cotton-rag
- Heavyweight archival cotton-rag stock — the same acid-free paper conservators trust — not thin poster stock.
- Archival pigment, 100+ years
- Pigment inks, not dye: rated to hold their colour past a century without fading or shifting.
- Colour-managed to the source
- Each file is profiled to the holding institution’s own scan, so the print reads as the painting does.
- Gallery canvas on solid wood
- Canvas is gallery-wrapped over kiln-dried solid-wood stretcher bars — taut, square, ready to hang.
Paris Street; Rainy Day
A wet grey boulevard, and the loneliness of the modern city.
- Work
- Gustave Caillebotte, Paris Street; Rainy Day (Rue de Paris, temps de pluie)
- Artist / creator
- Gustave Caillebotte (French, 1848–1894)
- Origin & date
- Paris, 1877
- Held by
- The Art Institute of Chicago
Format
The full-resolution color-managed file — yours to print, study, and keep.
Sized to protect print quality — this scan's resolution supports sizes up to 24x36 cleanly.
Size
$24.00
The story
Caillebotte painted the brand-new Paris of Baron Haussmann — the wide grey stone intersections, the cast-iron lamp posts — on a day of fine rain, the cobbles slicked to silver. Well-dressed strangers cross under umbrellas, not one of them meeting another’s eye; a couple advances straight at us, about to walk out of the frame. The perspective is huge and cool and photographic, the mood unmistakably that of a great city, where you can be entirely alone in a crowd. Wealthy enough to paint whatever he liked, Caillebotte chose the modern street and its beautiful, glassy solitude. The definitive picture of the new Paris.
About this reproduction
- Faithful reproduction of a public-domain work, sourced from The Art Institute of Chicago’s open-access release.
- Printed to order on archival cotton-rag stock, pigment inks rated 100+ years.
- Color-managed to the source scan.
- Every factual claim about this work — title, artist, date, and holding institution — is verified against the art-historical record and the source institution.
- Ships in 5–8 business days; satisfaction guaranteed.
