The Floor Scrapers By Caillebotte

Rainy day 1877 uses bold perspective to create a monumental portrait of a paris intersection on a.

The floor scrapers by caillebotte. Daylight enters the room from a window on the far wall. Parmi giuntini director of art history otis college. The modern urban environment and the floor scrapers 1875 is a realistic scene of urban craftsmen busily at work. The painting includes images of several floor scraping tools as well as an opened bottle of cheap wine.

Les raboteurs de parquet the floor planers this painting is one of the first representations of urban proletariat. Gustave caillebotte the floor scrapers les raboteurs de parquet 1875 oil on canvas 102 x 146 5 cm musée d orsay paris. Les raboteurs de parquet english title. The floor scrapers depicts three semi nude floor planers working on hands and knees scraping a parquet floor in a parisian apartment thought to be caillebotte s own studio at 77 rue de miromesnil.

Gustave caillebotte was born on 19 august 1848 to an upper class parisian family living in the rue du faubourg saint denis his father martial caillebotte 1799 1874 was the inheritor of the family s military textile business and was also a judge at the seine department s tribunal de commerce caillebotte s father was twice widowed before marrying caillebotte s mother céleste daufresne. Caillebotte s masterpiece paris street. The iron bridge depicted in the pont de l europe 1876 typifies this interest in the modern urban environment and the floor scrapers 1875 is a realistic scene of urban craftsmen busily at work. The floor scrapers is an oil painting by french impressionist gustave caillebotte the canvas measures 102 by 146 5 centimetres 40 2 in 57 7 in.

It was originally given by caillebotte s family in 1894 to the musée du luxembourg then transferred to the musée du louvre in 1929. In 1947 it was moved to the galerie nationale du jeu de paume and in. Caillebotte s masterpiece paris street. Other articles where the floor scrapers is discussed.