The Floor Scrapers

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The floor scrapers.

Manufactured with a high carbon steel blade it effectively rips up concrete marble ceramic tile wood floors roofing asphalt and tile. Les raboteurs de parquet the floor planers this painting is one of the first representations of urban proletariat. The floor scrapers is an oil painting by french impressionist gustave caillebotte the canvas measures 102 by 146 5 centimetres 40 2 in 57 7 in. Wide floor scraper and stripper features a 48 in.

Whereas peasants gleaners by millet or country workers stone breakers by courbet had often been shown city workers had seldom been painted unlike courbet or millet caillebotte does not incorporate any social moralising or political message in his work. Gustave caillebotte s 1875 canvas the floor scrapers depicts an atypical scene from a typically grand apartment in paris. A group of three manual works are busy planning the floor with bare backs knelt so that their faces are only barely distinguishable. The iron bridge depicted in the pont de l europe 1876 typifies this interest in the modern urban environment and the floor scrapers 1875 is a realistic scene of urban craftsmen busily at work.

It was originally given by caillebotte s family in 1894 to the musée du luxembourg then transferred to the musée du louvre in 1929. Daylight enters the room from a window on the far wall. In 1947 it was moved to the galerie nationale du jeu de paume and in. Caillebotte s masterpiece paris street.

The modern urban environment and the floor scrapers 1875 is a realistic scene of urban craftsmen busily at work. Wide floor scraper and stripper qep 7 in. The floor scrapers gustave caillebotte. The painting includes images of several floor scraping tools as well as an opened bottle of cheap wine.

Personna 4 in stainless steel carbon steel floor scraper. Caillebotte s masterpiece paris street. Other articles where the floor scrapers is discussed. The floor scrapers depicts three semi nude floor planers working on hands and knees scraping a parquet floor in a parisian apartment thought to be caillebotte s own studio at 77 rue de miromesnil.

Les raboteurs de parquet english title. Rainy day 1877 uses bold perspective to create a monumental portrait of a paris intersection on a rainy day.