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Les raboteurs de parquet
Les raboteurs de parquet (English title: "The Floor Scrapers") is an oil painting by French Impressionist Gustave Caillebotte. The canvas measures . It was originally given by Caillebotte's family in 1894 to the Musée du Luxembourg, then transferred to the Musée du Louvre in 1929. In 1947, it was moved to the Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume, and in 1986, it was transferred again to the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, where it is currently displayed.
Caillebotte’s originality lay
. His clothes are folded and placed on a nearby wooden chair, alongside his boots. A towel or robe is lying on the floor next to the tub. The man has left wet footprints on the wooden floor. He is naked and observed from behind with his towel covering only the mid part of his back.
Analysis.
By this point in his career, Caillebotte had painted many images with great fidelity to realistic portrayals of people and their environment. As with his "Les raboteurs de parquet" (English