Gustave Caillebotte (French, 1848–1894), 'Paris Street; Rainy Day', 1877
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Bidding on Gustave Caillebotte (French, 1848–1894), 'Paris Street; Rainy Day', 1877
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$46,000Consigned by
Rafael Ortiz-Bennett
@ortizbennett
4.7 from 96 sales
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Catalogue note
Oil on canvas. 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.). Gustave Caillebotte, 1877.
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Dimensions are those given by the holding institution and are sight measurements unless stated. No ultraviolet or infrared examination has been carried out for this catalogue; prospective buyers are asked to satisfy themselves as to condition. Catalogue data for this lot is drawn from The Art Institute of Chicago's open-access collections record (CC0 1.0 (descriptions CC-BY 4.0)).
Provenance
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].
Condition
Mint
As issued. No signs of handling or display wear.
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