Gustave Caillebotte (French,1848-1894),The Seine and the Railroad Bridge at Argenteuil 1885 or 1887,oil on canvas
Impressionist painter Gustave Caillebotte identified the small town of Argenteuil as an ideal modern landscape where nature's blue skies and rivers mingled harmoniously with industry-represented here in the town's new concrete and iron railroad bridge spanning the Seine.In 1851 the Paris/Saint-Germaine-en-Laye railway line came to Argenteuil,bringing with it thousands of middle class tourists from the French capital in under twenty-five minutes.Developers and industrialists followed transforming the suburb intro the regions most popular boating and sailing destination.
Gustave Caillebotte (French,1848-1894),The Seine and the Railroad Bridge at Argenteuil 1885 or 1887,oil on canvas
Impressionist painter Gustave Caillebotte identified the small town of Argenteuil as an ideal modern landscape where nature's blue skies and rivers mingled harmoniously with industry-represented here in the town's new concrete and iron railroad bridge spanning the Seine.In 1851 the Paris/Saint-Germaine-en-Laye railway line came to Argenteuil,bringing with it thousands of middle class tourists from the French capital in under twenty-five minutes.Developers and industrialists followed transforming the suburb intro the regions most popular boating and sailing destination.