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Gustave Caillebotte executed this preparatory study around 1876 for his larger work depicting the Pont de l'Europe, an iron bridge spanning the railway tracks near Gare Saint-Lazare. The composition captures modern Paris during the Haussmann renovations, with geometric steel girders creating dramatic diagonal perspectives.
Caillebotte was fascinated by urban engineering and bourgeois street life. Unlike his Impressionist colleagues who favored soft brushwork, he employed a sharper, more photographic approach. This study hangs at the Petit Palais in Paris, while the finished painting resides in Geneva.
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