My wife and I visited Paris in 2019 and spent a full week there. We, wisely I might add, hired a personal guide to take us around the city each day. She took us to all of the prominent sights and, by the end of the week and our stay, we had taken a whopping total of 2,500 photos! During one of our excursions, we walked the streets surrounding the Arc de Triomphe during a heavy rainstorm and thus brought about the inspiration for ìTriumphant Rain.î I decided to create this painting after returning home and realizing my wife and I had fallen head-over-heels in love with Paris! What an incredibly beautiful city! It is truly an artist's paradise! I began the painting in April 2022 and had a fully framed painting in early February 2023. All told, the process of executing the work in oil took me nearly 8 months.