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.
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| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
oil painting
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painting → |
| artHistoricalContext |
transition between Realism and Impressionism in France
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| artisticStyle |
realist depiction with Impressionist influences
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| collection |
Musée d’Orsay collection
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| colorPalette |
muted tones with strong contrasts of light and shadow
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| countryOfOrigin |
France
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| creator |
Gustave Caillebotte
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| creatorNationality |
French
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| depicts |
Parisian apartment
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interior scene → laborers → workers planing a wooden floor → |
| depictsActivity |
planing a wooden floor
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| depictsSocialClass |
working class
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| depictsTimeOfDay |
daytime
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| describedAs |
celebrated work of Gustave Caillebotte
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key example of Caillebotte’s interest in modern urban life → |
| exhibitedAt |
Paris
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| genre |
genre painting
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| hasInfluenceOn |
later depictions of urban working-class life in painting
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| 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
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| inception |
1875
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| languageOfTitle |
French
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| locatedIn |
Paris
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| location |
Musée d’Orsay
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| mainSubject |
floor scrapers
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| materialUsed |
oil paint
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| 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
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| partOf |
19th-century French painting
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| setInPeriod |
late 19th century Paris
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| support |
canvas
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| title |
The Floor Scrapers
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Referenced by (3)
| Subject (surface form when different) | Predicate |
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Impressionism
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hasNotableWork |
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Impressionist exhibitions
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notableWorkExhibited |
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The Floor Scrapers
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title |