Raindrops

Gustave Caillebotte, Yerres Effect of Rain (1875)
Photo: Larry Wolf, Art Institute of Chicago (2025)

Walking swiftly through the Art Institute, scanning for landscapes, this one jumped out at me. the mix of created environment (the pavement just barely at our feet, diagonally) and river with woods and rain drops, the boat on the far shore in the shadows at the edge of the river almost hidden in the trees behind it, backlit. And then a chuckle, reading the wall text, that this is another Caillebotte, though one which wasn't in the blockbuster show a month or two ago. Another Caillebotte rainy day painting, larger, urban, is around the corner. A further chuckle looking at this photo, with the painting balancing, a bit askew, on my blurry finger.