Paris Street; Rainy Day by Gustave Caillebotte
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Paris Street; Rainy Day

Gustave Caillebotte · 1877

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. The artist (died 1894); by descent to Martial Caillebotte (brother) and Marie Minoret (Martial’s wife), Paris, 1894 [this and the two following per Portland Art Museum, Paintings from the Collection of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., exh. cat. (Portland Art Association, 1956), p. 47. See also fact sheet provided by Wildenstein and Company, copy in curatorial object file]; placed with Georges Minoret (brother-in-law of Martial Caillebotte), Château de Montglat, Provins, France, 1900; Returned to Albert and Geneviève Chardeau (daughter of Martial Caillebotte), Paris, 1950; sold to Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., New York, 1954 [per J. Kirk T. Varnedoe and Thomas P. Lee, Gustave Caillebotte: A Retrospective Exhibition, with contributions by J. Kirk T. Varnedoe, Marie Berhaut, Peter Galassi, and Hilarie Faberman, exh. cat. (Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1976), p. 110]; sold to Wildenstein and Company, 1964 [per email from Joseph Baillio, Wildenstein and Company, copy in curatorial object file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1964 [per minutes from the meeting of the Committee on Earlier Painting and Sculpture, November 25, 1964 and minutes from the meeting of the Board of Trustees, December 21, 1964, both on file in Institutional Archives, Art Institute of Chicago].

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Paris, 6, rue le Peletier, 3e exposition de peinture [third Impressionist exhibition], Apr. 1877, cat. 1, as Rue de Paris; Temps de pluie.
  • Paris, Durand-Ruel, Exposition rétrospective d’oeuvres de G. Caillebotte, June 4–16, 1894, cat. 47.
  • Paris, Galerie Beaux-Arts, Rétrospective Gustave Caillebotte, May 25–July 25, 1951, cat. 13.
  • Portland (Ore.) Art Museum, Paintings from the Collection of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., Mar. 2–Apr. 15, 1956, cat. 78 (ill.); Seattle Art Museum, Apr. 27–May 27, 1956; San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, opened June 11, 1956; Los Angeles County Museum, July 27–Aug. 26, 1956; Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Sept. 7–Oct. 9, 1956; City Art Museum of Saint Louis, Oct. 20–Nov. 19, 1956; Kansas City, William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, Dec. 2–30, 1956; Detroit Institute of Arts, Jan. 18–Feb. 17, 1957; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Mar. 8–Apr. 7, 1957.
  • Dayton (Ohio) Art Institute, French Paintings, 1789–1929: From the Collection of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., Mar. 25–May 22, 1960, cat. 56 (ill.).
  • Minneapolis Institute of Arts, The Past Rediscovered: French Painting, 1800–1900, July 3–Sept. 7, 1969, cat. 7 (ill.).
  • Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Gustave Caillebotte: A Retrospective Exhibition, Oct. 22, 1976–Jan. 2, 1977, cat. 25 (ill.); Brooklyn Museum, Feb. 12–Apr. 24, 1977 (Houston only).
  • Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, The New Painting: Impressionism, 1874–1886, Jan. 17–Apr. 6, 1986, cat. 38 (ill.); Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, Apr. 19–July 6, 1986.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, The Art of the Edge: European Frames, 1300–1900, Oct. 17–Dec. 14, 1986, not in cat.
  • Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Gustave Caillebotte, 1848–1894, Sept. 16, 1994–Jan. 9, 1995, cat. 35 (ill.); Art Institute of Chicago, as Gustave Caillebotte: Urban Impressionist, Feb. 18–May 28, 1995; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, June 22–Sept. 10, 1995.
  • Fort Worth, Tex., Kimbell Museum of Art, The Impressionists: Master Paintings from the Art Institute of Chicago, June 29–Nov. 2, 2008, cat. 18 (ill.).
  • Essen, Germany, Museum Folkwang, Bilder einer Metropole: Die Impressionisten in Paris, Oct. 2, 2010–Jan. 30, 2011, cat. 11 (ill.).

Literature

Published references

  • Catalogue de la 3e exposition de peinture, exh. cat. (E. Capiomont et V. Renault, 1877), p. 3, cat. 1.
  • Léon Mancino, “La descente de la courtille,” L’art 9 (Apr. 1877), p. 70.
  • Anonymous [possibly Gaston Vassy], “La journée à Paris: L’exposition des impressionnalistes,” L’événement, Apr. 6, 1877, p. 2.
  • L. G., “Le salon des ‘impressionnistes,’” La presse, Apr. 6, 1877, p. 2.
  • “Chronique,” Gazette de France, Apr. 7, 1877, p. 2.
  • Thomas Grimm [Pierre Véron], “Les impressionnistes,” Le petit journal, Apr. 7, 1877, p. 1.
  • Alexandre Pothey, “Beaux-arts,” Le petit parisien, Apr. 7, 1877, p. 2.
  • Paul Sébillot, “Exposition des impressionnistes,” Le bien public, Apr. 7, 1877, p. 2.
  • Anonymous [possibly George Lafenestre], “Le jour et la nuit,” Le moniteur universel, Apr. 8, 1877, p. 2.
  • C. D., “L’exposition des impressionnistes,” Le petit moniteur universel, Apr. 8, 1877, p. 2.
  • E. Lepelletier [Edmond-Adolphe de Bouhélier], “Les impressionnistes,” Le radical, Apr. 8, 1877, pp. 2–3.
  • Baron Schop [Théodore de Banville], “Choses et autres,” Le national, Apr. 8, 1877,pp. 2–3.

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