A Balcony in Paris
Un balcon à Paris | |
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English: A Balcony in Paris | |
Artist | Gustave Caillebotte |
Year | c. 1880–81 |
Medium | Oil on canvas |
Dimensions | 55.2 cm × 39 cm (21.7 in × 15 in) |
Location | Private collection |
A Balcony in Paris (French: Un balcon à Paris) is an oil-on-canvas painting by the French Impressionist painter Gustave Caillebotte. It was completed c. 1880–1881. The dimensions of the painting are 55.2 by 39 centimeters. It is housed in a private collection.
Description
This painting is one of several by Caillebotte in which an urban street, viewed from a balcony, is seen through the spaces of an ornate iron grill in the foreground, differentiating the space of the street from the interior of his bourgeois home, 31 boulevard Haussmann in Paris. The motif may have been inspired by similar juxtapositions seen in many Japanese ukiyo-e prints.[1]
See also
References
- ^ Varnedoe, Kirk (1987). Gustave Caillebotte. New Haven: Yale University Press. p. 154. ISBN 0-300-03722-8
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- Les raboteurs de parquet (1875)
- Young Man at His Window (1876)
- Le Pont de l'Europe (1876)
- Boating on the Yerres (1877)
- Paris Street; Rainy Day (1877)
- Les Orangers (1878)
- Vue de toits (1878–79)
- A Balcony in Paris (1880–81)
- The Bezique Game (1880)
- Portrait of Richard Gallo (1880s)
- Homme au bain (1884)
- Martial Caillebotte (brother)
- Art Institute of Chicago II, Chicago (1990 photograph)
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