Which painting by Gustave Caillebotte features a man and woman under umbrellas on a rainy Paris street?

Gustave Caillebotte’s Paris Street; Rainy Day features a man and woman walking beneath an umbrella on a wet Paris street.

Painted in 1877, the large oil-on-canvas work shows pedestrians crossing the Place de Dublin, an intersection near the Gare Saint-Lazare. Its broad boulevards and uniform stone façades reflect the major rebuilding of Paris directed by Baron Haussmann under Napoleon III. The scene captures a modern, middle-class city rather than a picturesque rural landscape.

Caillebotte was associated with the Impressionists and exhibited with them, but this painting is more linear and sharply structured than the loose, broken-brush style often associated with the movement. Its unusual cropping, shifting focus, strong two-point perspective, and apparent snapshot quality also reveal the influence of photography. The painting first appeared at the Third Impressionist Exhibition in 1877 and is now held by the Art Institute of Chicago. It is easily confused with Caillebotte’s The Pont de l’Europe, another Parisian urban scene, but the umbrella couple belongs to Paris Street; Rainy Day.