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The Art Institute of Chicago — public domain (CC0). Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection Source

5 Lot

Gustave Caillebotte

French, 1848–1894

Paris Street; Rainy Day

Date: 1877
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 212.2 × 276.2 cm (83 1/2 × 108 3/4 in.); Framed: 241.3 × 306.1 × 10.2 cm (95 × 120 1/2 × 4 in.)
Inscription: Signed and dated lower left
Department: Impressionist & Modern Art

Estimate £22,000,000 – 30,000,000

Offered in Impressionist & Modern Art — Evening Sale, 3 September 2026

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A Under raking light

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Relief

Derived from this photograph by shape-from-shading, as a reading aid. A measured relief map requires photometric stereo and accompanies the full condition report.

B Catalogue note

Provenance

Private collection, France
Private collection, Switzerland
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Exhibited

Paris, third Impressionist exhibition, 1877, no. 1

Literature

Berhaut, Caillebotte: catalogue raisonné, no. 57

Condition

Lined. Retouching confined to the lower left quadrant, visible under ultraviolet and sympathetically applied.

This is a summary. A full written condition report, with raking-light and ultraviolet photography, is issued on request and forms part of the description.

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