Bag Gustave Caillebotte - Paris Street; Rainy Day

This bag was created for the exhibition "Caillebotte Painting men" at the Musée d'Orsay from October 08th, 2024 to January 19th, 2025.

The bag is illustrated with a detail from the work of Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1894), Paris Street; Rainy Day, 1877.
(Oil on canvas. H. 212; L. 276 cm - Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection. Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago)
© Photo The Art Institute of Chicago, dist. GrandPalaisRmn / Image The Art Institute of Chicago.

This complex intersection, just minutes away from the Saint-Lazare train station, represents in microcosm the changing urban milieu of late nineteenth-century Paris. Gustave Caillebotte grew up near this district when it was a relatively unsettled hill with narrow, crooked streets. As part of a new city plan designed by Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann, these streets were relaid and their buildings razed during the artist's lifetime. 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 foreground and wearing the latest fashions.
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