Oil on canvas, 81×59 cm. Via Wikiart, Public Domain.
Caillebotte painted this beautiful rainy scene on his family’s property near Paris. If you listen closely, you’ll hear the rain drops falling on your head. The painting is housed at the Eskenazi Museum of Art at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, USA:
The composition includes a glimpse of a boat—perhaps Caillebotte’s—just visible on the far shore of the Yerres River. The artist was an avid rower, and canoes, skiffs, and rowboats appear in many of his works. The painting’s vertical format, diagonal lines, and stylized pattern of raindrops also suggest the influence of Japanese woodblock prints, which had been available in France since the early nineteenth century, and were collected by many artists. Their distinctive aesthetic qualities had a strong influence on Impressionism.
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