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Three people are seen in the foreground: a couple walking toward the observer, and a working-class man peering off the bridge toward the train station. A dog walks away from the observer, and other individuals appear in the mid-background. The man of the couple is a
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is located behind the head of the man, which is far to the side of the picture, creating oblique perspective. Caillebotte was influenced by Japanese art, especially the work of
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for a lower-class male prostitute in this unsavory neighborhood of Paris. However, Caillebotte's sexual orientation is not definitively known.
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Caillebotte displayed this image at the impressionist exhibition of 1877, alongside his
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is looking past his companion in the direction of the other man. Feminist art historian
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Scissors, Paper, Stone: Expressions of Memory in Contemporary Photographic Art
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has suggested that Caillebotte, a lifelong bachelor, is signalling his own
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Gustave Caillebotte and the Fashioning of Identity in Impressionist Paris
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Gustave Caillebotte and the Fashioning of Identity in Impressionist Paris
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with this gaze. In this reading, Caillebotte is an upper-class man
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Impressionist Cats & Dogs: Pets in the Painting of Modern Life
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measures 125 by 181 centimetres (49 in Ă— 71 in).
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Index

Europe bridge
See adjacent text.
Gustave Caillebotte
Oil
canvas
Musée du Petit Palais
fr
Geneva
oil painting
impressionist
Gustave Caillebotte
Musée du Petit Palais
fr
Geneva
canvas
Place de l'Europe
fr
8th arrondissement of Paris
Gare Saint-Lazare
rue de Vienne
fr
trusses
flâneur
prostitute
Norma Broude
homosexuality
cruising
Rue de Paris, temps de pluie
Claude Monet
Le Pont de l'Europe, Gare Saint-Lazare

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