I don't know why I have always loved this painting from Impressionist Gustave Caillebotte entitled Paris Street; A Rainy Day, but I have. I have never been to Paris and I hate the rain, but something about the couple walking arm-in-arm with all of the umbrella carrying street-goers in the background caught my eye years ago at the Chicago Art Institute and there has been a print of it hanging in my home next to two of my favorite Rembrandts ever since.
Thus, when I saw this in the Toledo Museum of Art several weeks ago, I just had to have it. The print of Rainy Day, Boston by Childe Hassam is a lot smaller than the one I own from Caillebotte, but it looks so nice sitting the bottom frame with it. Two different Impressionists capturing a corner building on a rainy day on the streets of a big city well over a hundred years ago is beautiful to me. Glad to have these in my home to remind me that rainy days can be just as beautiful as the sunny ones.
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