Caillebotte Floor Scrapers

Les raboteurs de parquet english title.

Caillebotte floor scrapers. From musée d orsay gustave caillebotte the floor scrapers 1875 oil on canvas 40 58 in. Rainy day 1877 uses bold perspective to create a monumental portrait of a paris intersection on a. Other articles where the floor scrapers is discussed.

It was originally given by caillebotte s family in 1894 to the musée du luxembourg then transferred to the musée du louvre in 1929. Rainy day 1877 uses bold perspective to create a monumental portrait of a paris intersection on a rainy day. Parme giuntini director of art history otis college of art and design and dr.

Robert summers lecturer otis college of art and design. In 1947 it was moved to the galerie nationale du jeu de paume and in. Daylight enters the room from a window on the far wall.

The modern urban environment and the floor scrapers 1875 is a realistic scene of urban craftsmen busily at work. Gustave caillebotte the floor scrapers les raboteurs de parquet 1875 oil on canvas 102 x 146 5 cm musée d orsay paris. 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.

Les raboteurs de parquet the floor planers this painting is one of the first representations of urban proletariat. Caillebotte s masterpiece paris street. 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.

Whereas peasants gleaners by millet or country workers stone breakers by courbet had often been shown city workers had seldom been painted unlike courbet or millet caillebotte does not incorporate any social moralising or political message in his 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.