Villas at Trouville — Gustave Caillebotte | Art Postcard

Painted during Caillebotte's late Normandy summers, Villas at Trouville sets two brick seaside houses above the Channel coast, their gables and shutters catching the same structural attention he gave the ironwork of his Paris bridges.

The elevated vantage looks down and across toward the water, reducing a fashionable resort town to a few confident planes of brick, sky, and sea — an architectural counterpoint to his busier boulevard scenes.

• A6 art postcard, 350 g/m²