GUSTAVE CAILLEBOTTE: "Paris Street, rainy day"1877 - oil on canvas, 212.2 - 276.2 cm. - Paris, Musée d'Orsay

This is Caillebotte's most famous and ambitious painting, exhibited at the Third Impressionist Exhibition at the Rue Le Peletier, where it was not well accepted by the critic. L'Évenement wrote about this painting: "the drawing is of good quality, but Caillebotte has forgotten to include the rain". Regardless, this is considered one of the best representations of 19th century Paris ever painted.

GUSTAVE CAILLEBOTTE: "Les raboteurs (The floor scrapers)", 1876 - oil on canvas, 102 - 146.5 cm. - Paris, Musée d'Orsay

The vertiginous perspective and the almost photographic focus are characteristic of Caillebotte's first works. This work exemplifies as no other the stupor that Caillebotte could cause between the assistants to the first impressionist exhibitions. Zola, who really appreciated Caillebotte, described it like "an antiartistic, clean painting, frost and bourgeois, by force of exactitude."