Study for Paris Street; Rainy Day
Gustave Caillebotte (French, 1848-1894)
1877
- Medium
- Graphite, with touches of erasing and touches of charcoal, on tan, moderately thick, moderately textured handmade laid paper
- Classification
- Drawing and Watercolor
- Dimensions
- 30.2 × 46.5 cm (11 15/16 × 18 5/16 in.)
- Culture
- France
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Purchased with funds provided by the Jentes Family Foundation
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
This preparatory drawing seems to have been freely sketched on the spot before being laid out in the studio with a straightedge and compass to regularize the perspective lines.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
