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The Floor Scrapers by Gustave Caillebotte

The Floor Scrapers
Gustave Caillebotte
1875
Oil on canvas
Impressionism
Musée d'Orsay

Now considered one of Caillebotte's masterpieces, 'The Floor Scrapers' was first met with mixed receptions. It was even rejected from the most prestigious art exhibition of the time, 'the Salon', because the jurors found its subject of working-class people hard at work, without all their clothes on, to be too vulgar.

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