If not for Faye Wrubel, we’d be lacking in our understanding of Gustave Caillebotte’s relationship to Impressionism

According to an article by Kyle Macmillan in the April 18, 2014 issue of The Wall Street Journal (“An Impressionist is Unmasked”), in October 2013 Faye Wrubel, a paintings conservator at the Art Institute of Chicago began a routine cleaning of Gustave Caillebotte’s “Paris Street: Rainy Day”. Her discovery through testing and research that underneath what turned out to be a layer of later yellow overpaint was an airier, bluer, more atmospheric sky led to the understanding that Caillebotte was an Impressionist in his approach to the depiction of specific atmospheric conditions.