Introduction:
Typical for the impressionist painting style is the rendering of wheater conditions. Rain is one of those conditions. But, it is less often depicted and when so not very true to life. Note: this page has just been started.
Gustave Caillebotte: 3IE-1877-1, Rue de Paris, temps de pluie = 1877, SDbl, 1CR52+2CR57, Paris street, a rainy day, 212×276, AI Chicago (iR5;iR2;R2,p208;R101,no52;R102,no57+p282;R90II,p69+85;M20) Expo: DR1894-47. Location: Rue de Turin towards Rue de Saint-Pétersbourg.
Gustave Caillebotte: 1875, SDbl, 1CR21=2CR21, L’Yerres, pluie (riverbank in the rain), 81×59, Bloomington IUAM (iR3;iR2;R41,p114;R102,no21;R101,no21) Compare: 4IE-1879-30, Rivière d’Yerres (Pastel).
Caillebotte, Temps de pluie:
In 1877Gustave Caillebotte exhibited ‘Temps de pluie’ at the 3rd ‘impressionist’ exposition (M20).
He beautifully depicts the wet street. But, there are no raindrops on the umbrella’s. The two people in front don’t seem hindered by the rain at all. Maybe they were painted in the studio.
In his ‘Riverbank in the rain’ he depicts circles in the water, but in front on the path the rain is not clearly depicted.
Renoir and his umbrellas: In Auguste Renoir his painting ‘The umbrellas’ we neither see raindrops on the umbrella’s. Judging by the woman in the middle, who closes her umbrella, the rain has just stopped. But, the young woman and the two children in front, all without umbrella’s, don’t give any indication that it has just before rained. (M61)
Alfred Sisley: 1888ca, Sbl, CR657=CCPP740, Moret-sur-Loing, temps de plui, 55×74, A2008/05/07 (iR11;iR14;iR2;iR1;R129,no657;R396,no740) Expo: =?? SNBA-1895-1143, Moret (temps pluvieux); =New York-DR1920-19. Provenance: Durand-Ruel;
Alfred Sisley: 1892, SDbl, CR814=CCPP906, Chantier de Matrat, Moret-sur-Loing, rainy weather, 60×73, Yale New Haven (iR2;R129,no814;R396,no906;M33) =SNBA-1893-976, Le Chantier à Matrat. Provenance: Georges Petit; 1901/03/15 Boussod, Valadon & Cie.
Sisley depicted the rain: Alfred Sisley several times depicted rainy wheater conditions. Namely in Moret and 4 times the church of Moret. In CCPP740 the streets indeed seem wet and it also looks windy, but the sky doesn’t depict dark clouds. In CCPP906 the rain can’t be recognized, not even circles in the water are depicted. In CCPP931 +939 the wet street is nicely depicted, but in CCPP929 +936 the (effect of) rain is barely recognisable.
Alfred Sisley: 1893, SDbr, CR821=CCPP929, The Church at Moret-sur-Loing, rainy morning, 81×65, ML Baden (iR2;R129,no821;R396,no929) Provenance: sale atelier Sisley GP1899/05/01-12 -> Viau; sale DR1907/03/21-78. Expo: Dresden-1904-2284.
Alfred Sisley: 1893, SDbr, CCPP931, The Church at Moret-sur-Loing, rainy day, morning, 66×81, HAG Glasgow (iR155;iR10;iR173;iR2;R5,p189;R38;R396,no931;M186) Provenance: Viau; Expos: SNBA1896-1150, Eglise de Moret (temps de pluie), appartient à M. le Dr Viau.
Alfred Sisley: 1894, SDbl, CR836=CCPP936, The Church at Moret-sur-Loing, after the rain, 73×60, Detroit IA (iR155;iR2;iR1;R129,no836;R396,no936;M151) Expo: SNBA1894-1065, Une vieille église; après la pluie; GP1897-40. Provenance: sale atelier Sisley GP1899/05/01-14 -> Payen; sale HD1916/06/29-107 -> Durand-Ruel.
Alfred Sisley: 1894, SDbl, CR834=CCPP939, The old church of Moret-sur-Loing in the rain (transept side), 73×60, Birmingham MAG (iR155;iR2;iR1;R38;R129,no834=CCPP939;M182) Expo: =SNBA-1894-1064, Une vieille église; par la pluie. Provenance: sale atelier Sisley GP1899/05/01-15 -> Bernheim-Jeune.
