Paris Street; Rainy Day
Gustave Caillebotte (1848 to 1894), 1877
$270
Print check at 24 x 18 in: 249 dpi, excellent. Trimmed 1% to the shape of the print.
Shipping to a US address: $25.90 for this piece, from the print room in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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Caillebotte painted the brand-new Paris of Baron Haussmann — the wide grey stone intersections, the cast-iron lamp posts — on a day of fine rain, the cobbles slicked to silver. Well-dressed strangers cross under umbrellas, not one of them meeting another’s eye; a couple advances straight at us, about to walk out of the frame. The perspective is huge and cool and photographic, the mood unmistakably that of a great city, where you can be entirely alone in a crowd. Wealthy enough to paint whatever he liked, Caillebotte chose the modern street and its beautiful, glassy solitude. The definitive picture of the new Paris.
- Maker
- Gustave Caillebotte (1848 to 1894)
- Date
- 1877
- Medium of the original
- Painting
- Original held by
- The Art Institute of Chicago
- Credit
- The Art Institute of Chicago · via Wikimedia Commons
- Rights
- Public domain, verified
- Catalogue number
- PA-00640
| Picture | 24 x 18 in |
|---|---|
| Outside size | 25.6 x 19.6 in |
| Depth | 0.9 in (22 mm) |
| Weight | [[REAL PROOF NEEDED: shipped weight per size and frame]] |
| Hanging | [[REAL PROOF NEEDED: hanging hardware Prodigi fits to this frame]] |
| Material | Enhanced matte art paper, 200 gsm; acrylic glazing |
| Made in | Charlotte, North Carolina, by Prodigi |
Before a size goes on sale, the file is measured against it: pixels per inch at that size, how much of the picture a crop would lose, tone and sharpness. A size that fails is not offered, so there is nothing to choose wrong.
| Size | dpi | Grade | How it fits |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 x 8 in | 566 | Excellent | Trimmed 5.3% |
| 14 x 11 in | 411 | Excellent | Trimmed 3.6% |
| 16 x 12 in | 373 | Excellent | Trimmed 1% |
| 20 x 16 in | 283 | Excellent | Trimmed 5.3% |
| 24 x 18 in | 249 | Excellent | Trimmed 1% |
| 30 x 24 in | 188 | Good | Trimmed 5.3% |
| Size | Why |
|---|---|
| 12 x 8 in | Wrong shape: a 12% crop |
| 18 x 12 in | Wrong shape: a 12% crop |
| 24 x 16 in | Wrong shape: a 12% crop |
| 30 x 20 in | Wrong shape: a 12% crop |
| 36 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 12% crop |
| 40 x 30 in | 149 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 48 x 36 in | 124 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 60 x 40 in | Wrong shape: a 12% crop |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 5,982 x 4,531 px, srgb
- Tone
- Darks 53, lights 219 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 7.84
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