c1889 Gustave Caillebotte self-portrait
Musée national des beaux-arts de Québec
Gustave Caillebotte was an influential French painter best known for his involvement in the Impressionist movement, though he also notably subscribed to a Realist aesthetic. The more naturalistic hues, neutral tones, and attention to perspectival space in his works set him apart from other Impressionist painters. As an artist familiar with Japanese prints, Caillebotte often mimicked the style of ukiyo-e artists by utilizing a tilted perspective to depict the stretching boulevards and river scenes of Paris, such as in Paris Street, Rainy Day (1877). Born on August 19, 1848 in Paris, France to a wealthy family, the artist went on to study painting first with Léon Joseph Florentine Bonnat and then at the École des Beaux-Arts. After Caillebotte inherited money from his parents, he was able to not only fund his own career but support Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Edgar Degas, Camille Pissaro and other artists by purchasing their work. Caillebotte’s work is in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, among others. He died on February 21, 1894 in Gennevilliers, France.
For earlier works, and for more biographical information, see parts 1 - 4 also.
This is part 5 of a 5-part series on the works of Gustave Caillebotte:
1884 La Villa Rose, Trouville
oil on canvas 60.1 x 73.5 cmc1888 Sailboats in Argenteui
oil on canvas 65.5 x 55 cm
Musée d'Orsay, Paris1888 The plain of Gennevilliers from the hills of Argenteuil
oil on canvas 65 x 81 cm
Private Collection1888 Portrait of Eugene Lamy
oil on canvas 65.5 x 54 cm1888 Laundry drying, Petit Gennevilliers
oil on canvas 54 x 65 cm
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid1888 Factories in Argenteuil
oil on canvas 65 x 82 cm
Private Collection1889 Marine, Regatta at Villers
oil on canvas 73.4 x 200 cm1889 Landscape in Argenteuil
oil on canvas 60 x 73 cm
Musée d'Orsay, Paris1889-90 The little arm of the Seine, Argenteuil
oil on canvas 81 x 65 cmc1890-91 Boat at anchor on the Seine at Argenteuil
oil on canvas 41.2 x 32.7 cm1890-91 Garden path with dahlias in Petit Gennevilliers
oil on canvas 101 x 81 cm
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid1890 The bank the Seine at Petit-Gennevilliers
oil on canvas 153 x 127 cm
Private Collection1890 Boats on the Seine at Argenteuil
oil on canvas 60 x 73 cm
Private Collectionc1891 Boat at anchor on the Seine at Argenteuil
oil on canvas 65 x 50 cm
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid1891 Willow on the banks of the Seine
oil on canvas (dimensions not found)
Private Collection1891 The yellow boat
oil on canvas 73 x 92.5 cm
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, CA1891 The Seine at Marante Island in foggy weather
oil on canvas 65 x 54.3 cmc1892 View of the Seine in the direction of the Pont de Bezons
oil on canvas (dimensions not found)
Private Collectionc1892 Nasturtiums
oil on canvas (dimensions not found)
Private Collection1892 The Seine at Argenteuil
oil on canvas 54.3 x 65.1 cm
The Clark Museum, Williamstown, MA1892 Boats anchored on the Seine in Argenteuil
oil on canvas 60 x 73.7 cm
Museum Barberini, Potsdam1893 White and yellow chrysanthemums
oil on canvas 65 x 81 cm
Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris
1893 Study of a man with hands in his pockets
black chalk on paper 47.6 x 32.5 cm
The Cleveland Museum of Art, OH1893 Regatta at Argenteuil
oil on canvas 157 x 117 cm
Private Collection
1893 Chrysanthemums in the Garden at Petit-Gennevilliers:
Although Caillebotte was a lifelong gardener, his interest in floral subjects did not develope until the 1880s. This work of 1893 depicts flowers that he cultivated on his property at Petit-Gennevilliers, a small town on the Seine just northwest of Paris. Chrysanthemums were hugely popular in France, celebrated for their resplendent colors and associations with East Asia, whose arts and cultures were greatly admired by Europeans. This unusual, close-up view of densely packed blossoms has been related to Caillebotte’s project for dining room doors ornamented with images of plants—a conception akin to the decorative series that his friend Monet based on his own garden at Giverny.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
1893 Chrysanthemums in the garden at Petit-Gennevilliers
oil on canvas 99.4 x 61.6 cm
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York1894 or before
A Garden in Trouville
oil on canvas 65 x 82 cmbefore 1894 Roses in a Vase
oil on canvas 46 x 38 cmbefore 1894 Banks of the Seine at Petit-Gennevilliers
oil on canvas 43.5 x50.8 cm
Argenteuil Municipal Museum
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| n.d. Argenteuil Walk oil on canvas 65 x 73.8 cm |
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| n.d. A garden in Trouville oil on canvas 65 x 81.5 cm |
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| n.d. The fields, plains of Gennevilliers, study in yellow and green oil on canvas 54.6 x 65.2 cm Denver Art Museum, Colorado |
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| n.d. Flower bed, Petit-Gennevilliers garden oil on canvas 54.3 x 65.1 cm |
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| n.d. On the pond, waterlilies, Yerres oil on cardboard 19 x 28 cm Private Collection |
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| n.d. Meadow at Argenteuil Bridge oil on canvas 54.3 x 65.4 cm |
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| n.d. Lilacs and peonies in two vases oil on canvas 92 x 72 cm |
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| n.d. Rue du Mont-Cenis, Montmartre oil on canvas 55.2 x 46.3 cm |
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| n.d. Woman with parasol, Yerres oil on canvas 39.5 x 25 cm |
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| n.d. Two Partridges oil on canvas 38.1 x 55.2 cm |
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| n.d. The Seine at Pointe d’Epinay oil on canvas 65 x 81 cm |
