On its right, a worker in white carrying a ladder can be seen stepping over cobblestones.
This painting's creator was said to have executed its preparatory sketches while sitting in a specially constructed "omnibus" that allowed him work from nature. On its right, a worker in white carrying a ladder can be seen stepping over cobblestones. Originally displayed alongside another of its artist's paintings, which depicted a man looking down on the Saint Lazare train station from a bridge, this work focuses the viewer on an intersection at the Place de Dublin, where the Rue de Turin and the Rue de Moscou meet. A gaslight separates its background from the foreground, where a fashionably dressed woman with a veil walks next to a man in a top hat, who holds an opened umbrella. Currently housed at the Art Institute of Chicago, for 10 points, identify this large 1877 painting, the masterpiece of Gustave Caillebotte.
This painting's creator was said to have executed its preparatory sketches while sitting in a specially constructed "omnibus" that allowed him work from nature.
Paris Street; Rainy Day [or Paris, A Rainy Day]