The Floor Scrapers
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The Floor Scrapers is a celebrated 1875 painting by French artist Gustave Caillebotte that depicts laborers planing a wooden floor in a realistic yet Impressionist-influenced style.
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
oil painting
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painting ⓘ |
| artHistoricalContext | transition between Realism and Impressionism in France ⓘ |
| artisticStyle | realist depiction with Impressionist influences ⓘ |
| collection |
Musée d'Orsay
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surface form:
Musée d’Orsay collection
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| colorPalette | muted tones with strong contrasts of light and shadow ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| creator | Gustave Caillebotte ⓘ |
| creatorNationality | French ⓘ |
| depicts |
Parisian apartment
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interior scene ⓘ laborers ⓘ workers planing a wooden floor ⓘ |
| depictsActivity | planing a wooden floor ⓘ |
| depictsSocialClass | working class ⓘ |
| depictsTimeOfDay | daytime ⓘ |
| describedAs |
celebrated work of Gustave Caillebotte
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key example of Caillebotte’s interest in modern urban life ⓘ |
| exhibitedAt | Paris ⓘ |
| genre | genre painting ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOn | later depictions of urban working-class life in painting ⓘ |
| hasPart |
hand tools for scraping
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open window ⓘ planed wooden floor ⓘ shavings of wood ⓘ three male workers ⓘ |
| hasPerspective | low vantage point emphasizing floor surface ⓘ |
| inception | 1875 ⓘ |
| languageOfTitle | French ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Paris ⓘ |
| location |
Musée d'Orsay
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surface form:
Musée d’Orsay
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| mainSubject | floor scrapers ⓘ |
| materialUsed | oil paint ⓘ |
| movement |
Impressionism
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Realism ⓘ |
| notableFor |
detailed representation of manual labor
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strong perspective and foreshortening ⓘ subtle use of natural light ⓘ unusual focus on working-class subjects in bourgeois interior ⓘ |
| originalTitle | Les Raboteurs de parquet ⓘ |
| partOf | 19th-century French painting ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | late 19th century Paris ⓘ |
| support | canvas ⓘ |
| title | The Floor Scrapers self-link ⓘ |
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