LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Size Notes:

39.50 x 49.375 in. (100.2 x 125.3 cm.)

Markings:

signed and dated 'G Caillebotte 1881' (lower left)

Exhibited:

Paris, Salons du Panorama de Reischaffen, Septième Exposition Impressionniste, March 1882, no. 3. Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Gustave Caillebotte, Urban Impressionist, September 1994 - January 1995, no. 98, p. 258 (illustrated p. 259); this exhibition later travelled to Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, February - May 1995; and Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, June - September 1995.

Literature:

V.G. Fichtre, ‘L'actualité: L'exposition des peintres indépendants’, in Le Réveil, Paris, 2 March 1882. H. Robert, ‘Chronique parisienne: Le Salon des impressionnistes’, in La Petite Presse, Paris, 5 March 1882, p. 1. J. de Biez, Les petits salons: Les indépendants, Paris, 8 March 1882. R.J. Draner, ‘Une visite aux Impressionnistes’, in Le Charivari, Paris, 9 March 1882 (sketch illustrated). P. Charry, ‘Beaux-Arts’, in Le Pays, Paris, 10 March 1882. M. Berhaut, Caillebotte, sa vie et son oeuvre, catalogue raisonné des peintures et pastels, Paris, 1994, no. 158, p. 136 (Draner sketch illustrated). A. Distel, Gustave Caillebotte: The Unknown Impressionist, exh. cat., Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1996, p. 164 (illustrated fig. 1). J.-S. Klein, Lumières normandes, Les hauts-lieux de l'Impressionnisme, Rouen, 2013, p. 194 (illustrated; titled 'La rue montante'). M. Marrinan, Gustave Caillebotte, Painting the Paris of Naturalism, 1872-1887, Los Angeles, 2016, pp. 327-329 (illustrated fig. 164, p. 327).

Provenance:

Jeanne Schultz, Paris, by 1930, and thence by descent; sale, Christie’s, New York, 4 November 2003, lot 15. Acquired at the above sale.