Floor Planers Caillebotte

The painting includes images of several floor scraping tools as well as an opened bottle of cheap wine.

Floor planers caillebotte.

French painter gustave caillebotte known for his unusual perspectives and scenes from everyday life created the floor scrapers originally titled les raboteurs de parquet. The floor scrapers is an oil painting by french impressionist gustave caillebotte the canvas measures 102 by 146 5 centimetres 40 2 in 57 7 in. View in street view. The floor scrapers is an oil painting by french impressionist gustave caillebotte the canvas measures 102 by 146 5 centimetres 40 2 in 57 7 in.

Parme giuntini director of art history otis college of art and design and dr. Whereas peasants gleaners by millet or country workers stone breakers by courbet had often been shown city workers had seldom been painted unlike courbet or millet caillebotte does not incorporate any social moralising or political message in his work. Les raboteurs de parquet english title. In 1947 it was moved to the galerie nationale du jeu de paume and in.

Robert summers lecturer otis college of art and design. Gustave caillebotte the floor scrapers les raboteurs de parquet 1875 oil on canvas 102 x 146 5 cm musée d orsay paris. It was originally given by caillebotte s family in 1894 to the musée du luxembourg then transferred to the musée du louvre in 1929. Daylight enters the room from a window on the far wall.

Three workmen bare to the waist toil to strip the varnish off the floor of what is said to be the artist s residence. The floor planers gustave caillebotte 1875. The floor scrapers depicts three semi nude floor planers working on hands and knees scraping a parquet floor in a parisian apartment thought to be caillebotte s own studio at 77 rue de miromesnil. Musée d orsay paris paris france.

This painting is one of the first representations of urban proletariat. It was originally given by caillebotte s family in 1894 to the musée du luxembourg then transferred to the musée du louvre in 1929.