Caillebotte Paintings and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago

• Cat. 1  Study for “Paris Street; Rainy Day,” 1877
• Cat. 2 Paris Street; Rainy Day, 1877
• Cat. 3  Calf’s Head and Ox Tongue, c. 1882
• Cat. 4  Sketchbook, June 1883–September 1887

• Paris Street; Rainy Day: New Discoveries
  
  

  This video shows how a number of discoveries about Caillebotte’s working process for Paris Street; Rainy Day led to multiple experiments that sparked a new understanding of this iconic painting and the creative process used to construct it.

  
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• On the rue de Turin
  
  

  This video shows how a camera lucida might have been employed in the creation of Caillebotte’s sketch, Study for “Paris Street; Rainy Day”.

  
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• Discoveries in the Paper Conservation Lab
  
  

  This video explains how tiny indentations, invisible to the naked eye, were found on Caillebotte’s Study for “Paris Street; Rainy Day” and why they were key to our investigation into the artist’s working method.

  
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Gloria Groom and Genevieve Westerby, eds., Caillebotte Paintings and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago, rev. ed. (2015; repr., Art Institute of Chicago, 2025).

https://doi.org/10.53269/9780865592773