Gustave Caillebotte Paris Street; Rainy Day Matted Note Card

$11.50 at Art Institute of Chicago.

Print developed from Gustave Caillebotte’s Paris Street; Rainy Day, 1877, from the Art Institute of Chicago’s collection. This complex intersection, just minutes away from the Saint-Lazare train station, represents in microcosm the changing urban milieu of late nineteenth-century Paris. In this monumental urban view, which measures almost seven by ten feet and is considered the artist’s masterpiece, Caillebotte strikingly captured a vast, stark modernity, complete with life-size figures strolling in the…