In the 1870s, an emperor and a baron undertook the remaking of Paris: Napoleon III and Baron Georges-Eugene Haussmann's urban renewal project converted clusters of medieval warrens into the Paris ...

Gustave Caillebotte (b. 1848). Paris Street, Rainy Day, 1877. On view at the Art Institute of Chicago. (Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection; Art Institute of Chicago) Warning ...

Gustave Caillebotte’sParis Street; Rainy Daycontinues to confound and enthrall us in a way that leads us back to the words of Kirk Varnedoe, who was the first and perhaps most articulate spokesman for ...

A little-known 19th-century artist named Gustave Caillebotte did just ... depicts one of those rainy Paris days. His 1877 painting Paris Street, Rainy Day, shows top-hatted men, and women in ...

Gustave Caillebotte was so modest that when ... Centre stage is the huge masterpiece of urban alienation “Paris Street, Rainy Day”, loaned from Chicago. Life-size figures in uniform dark ...

The Art Institute of Chicago's six-month restoration of Gustave Caillebotte's 1877 painting, below, revealed surprises. A previous restoration left the sky duller and more one-dimensional.

But for painter and art patron Gustave Caillebotte, Paris was a darker, lonelier place. His 1877 work, Paris Street; Rainy Day, shows Parisians making their way down a vast street on a dreary day.

Impressionist paintings of Paris often depict a city full of sun-dappled socialites: dancing, shopping, boating and schmoozing. But for painter... Gustave Caillebotte: Impressions Of A Changing ...