#paris landscape

Gustave Caillebotte, Paris Street in Rainy Weather, 1877, oil on canvas.

This painting perfectly encapsulates the transforming landscape of Paris with its broad boulevards, and uniform yet decorative architecture. Unusually for Caillebotte this painting is very realistic and uses flat colours, similar to the work of American painters like Edward Hopper, which contrast greatly with his typically impressionistic pallet and style.