Galerie Mont View of roofs (Snow effect) – Gustave Caillebotte^ Caillebotte

In View of roofs (Snow effect), Gustave Caillebotte presents an urban landscape in winter, where the snow transforms the city’s roofs into a mosaic of brilliant whites and various greys. The work, shrouded in visual silence, suggests the calm of a cold day, when the sounds of the city are muffled by the blanket of snow. The sky, a monochrome of white and grey, seems to blend indistinctly with the buildings, creating an impression of unity and continuity between sky and earth.

Caillebotte uses his precise technique to capture the texture of the snow and the subtle shadows it creates on the surfaces it covers. This painting, which is part landscape and part genre scene in its depiction of the everyday environment of city dwellers, expresses a melancholy tranquillity. Each brushstroke contributes to the wintry atmosphere, evoking the tranquillity of nature asleep in the cold.

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