The Floor Scrapers

Rainy day 1877 uses bold perspective to create a monumental portrait of a paris intersection on a rainy day.

The floor scrapers.

Wide floor scraper and stripper qep 7 in. Caillebotte s masterpiece paris street. Les raboteurs de parquet the floor planers this painting is one of the first representations of urban proletariat. 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.

The painting includes images of several floor scraping tools as well as an opened bottle of cheap wine. 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. In 1947 it was moved to the galerie nationale du jeu de paume and in. 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.

Manufactured with a high carbon steel blade it effectively rips up concrete marble ceramic tile wood floors roofing asphalt and tile. The iron bridge depicted in the pont de l europe 1876 typifies this interest in the modern urban environment and the floor scrapers 1875 is a realistic scene of urban craftsmen busily at work. Daylight enters the room from a window on the far wall. The modern urban environment and the floor scrapers 1875 is a realistic scene of urban craftsmen busily at work.

Rainy day 1877 uses bold perspective to create a monumental portrait of a paris intersection on a. Wide floor scraper and stripper features a 48 in. Long handle with a foot peg that provides better leverage on tough projects. A group of three manual works are busy planning the floor with bare backs knelt so that their faces are only barely distinguishable.

Personna 4 in stainless steel carbon steel floor scraper. Gustave caillebotte was born on 19 august 1848 to an upper class parisian family living in the rue du faubourg saint denis his father martial caillebotte 1799 1874 was the inheritor of the family s military textile business and was also a judge at the seine department s tribunal de commerce caillebotte s father was twice widowed before marrying caillebotte s mother céleste daufresne. Other articles where the floor scrapers is discussed. Les raboteurs de parquet english title.

The floor scrapers gustave caillebotte. Gustave caillebotte s 1875 canvas the floor scrapers depicts an atypical scene from a typically grand apartment in paris.