Musée d’Orsay · 1878
Vue de toits
Gustave Caillebotte
Caillebotte paints a rooftop view over snow-covered Paris, looking down from a high window onto a jumble of chimneys and rooflines rather than any famous monument — a modern, almost accidental-feeling view of the city that only an apartment dweller would think to paint.
Why it matters
Caillebotte paints a rooftop view over snow-covered Paris, looking down from a high window onto a jumble of chimneys and rooflines rather than any famous monument — a modern, almost accidental-feeling view of the city that only an apartment dweller would think to paint.
Look closer
Notice the muted grays and soft pinks Caillebotte finds within what looks at first like plain white snow — a quiet, close study of how a grey winter sky changes the color of everything beneath it.
Caillebotte showed this painting alongside more than twenty other works at the fourth Impressionist exhibition in 1879, part of a small series of rooftop views he made from his own Paris apartment.
Value context
ELYIO places this work in an indicative editorial context of €15–30 million.
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