Man on a Balcony — Gustave Caillebotte | Art Postcard

A top-hatted Parisian stands with his back to us on a wrought-iron balcony, one hand braced on the rail, looking out over boulevard plane trees and Haussmann rooftops beneath a red-and-white striped awning. Painted in 1880, it's one of Gustave Caillebotte's defining views of bourgeois Paris — a solitary figure turned into pure looking.

• A6 postcard
• 350 g/m² paper

Unlike the leafy river scenes in this Caillebotte set, this one is pure city — a fitting card for anyone whose desk looks out on rooftops rather than water.