Gustave caillebotte

[MUSIC PLAYING] DR. STEVEN ZUCKER: We're looking at a Caspar David Friedrich-- a German Romantic artist. It's a painting called A Walk at Dusk. And it dates to somewhere between 1830...

(piano playing) Dr. Giuntini: Parme Giuntini. I'm here with Robert Summers. We're looking at an impressionist painting, The Floor Scrapers by Gustave Caillebotte. The Floor Scrapers is...

(piano music) >> Dr. Steven Zucker: One of the most interesting paintings by an American artist early in the nation's history is Washington Allston's "Elijah in...

(music) ("In The Sky With Diamonds" by Scalding Lucy) Steven: I'm looking at this gorgeous, subtle painting by Giovanni Bellini of the "Ecstasy of Saint...

(piano music playing) Steven: When historians talk about late 19th-century Paris, they often talk about a culture of display, and this is a painting that is all about that. Beth: We're looking...

(piano playing) Man: We're in The Paris Opera by Charles Garnier. Now, this was a project that was very much a part of Napoleon III's reconstruction of Paris with the help of Baron...

(piano music playing) Beth: When Caillebotte, Paris Street, Rainy Day was exhibited in 1877 at the Impressionist Exhibition, one anonymous reviewer wrote, "Caillebotte is an impressionist in...

[music] We're at the Musée d'Orsay, and we're looking at a cast from 1917, the year that Rodin died, of his "The Gates of Hell," which is this huge project...

(jazz music) Parme: This is Parme Giuntini and I'm back here with Robert Summers. We're looking at a painting by Gustave Caillebotte, Man at His Bath, and it's another one of...

I'm standing outside of the Legion of Honor where we're celebrating the opening of Impressionists on the Water I'm also standing in front of the opening to the San Francisco...