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| Gustave Caillebotte c1878 |
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 part 1 also.
This is part 2 of a 5-part series on the works od Gustave Caillebotte:
1877 Paris Street: Rainy Day
This complex intersection, just minutes away from the Saint-Lazare train station, represents in microcosm the changing urban milieu of late nineteenth-century Paris. Gustave Caillebotte grew up near this district when it was a relatively unsettled hill with narrow, crooked streets. As part of a new city plan designed by Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann, these streets were relaid and their buildings razed during the artist’s lifetime. In this monumental urban view, which measures almost seven by ten feet and is considered the artist’s masterpiece.
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| 1877 Paris Street; Rainy Day oil on canvas 212.2 x 276.2 cm Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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| 1877 study for Paris Street: Rainy Day graphite, with touches of erasing and touches of charcoal, on tan paper 30.2 x 46.5 cm Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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| 1877 Oarsmen rowing on the Yerres oil on canvas 81 x 116 cm Private Collection |
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| 1877 Monceau Park oil on canvas 50 x 65 cm |
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| 1877 Mademoiselle Boissière Knitting oil on canvas 65.1 x 80 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX |
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| 1877 Portrait of Camille Daurelle pastel on paper 40 x 32 cm Musée d'Orsay, Paris |
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| 1877 Portrait of Camille Daurelle in the park of Yerres pastel on paper 73 x 60 cm Musée d'Orsay, Paris |
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| 1877 Portrait of A. Cassabois oil on canvas 80 x 72.3 cm Private Collection |
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| 1877 Portrait de Monsieur R. (Reyre) oil on canvas 81 x 105 cm Private Collection |
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| 1877 Portrait of Madame Martial Caillebote (the artist's mother) oil on canvas (size not given) Private Collection |
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| 1877 Perissoires on the Yerres oil on canvas 103 x 156 cm Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin |
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| 1877 The Park at Yerres oil on canvas 81 x 59 cm Private Collection |
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| 1877 The nap pastel 36 x 53 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT |
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| 1877 The House Painters oil on canvas 87 x 116 cm Private Collection |
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| 1877 Skiffs oil on canvas 88.9 x 116.2 cm National Gallery of At, Washington, DC |
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| 1877 Rue Halévy, view from a Balcony oil on canvas 54 x 65.5 cm Museum Barberini, Potsdam |
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| 1877 The Yerres Valley pastel on paper laid down on board 58.1 x 72.4 cm |
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| 1877 The wall of the Kitchen Garden, Yerress oil on canvas 27 x 41 cm Private Collection |
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| 1877 The wall of the garden pastel on paper 44 x 49 cm Private Collection |
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| 1877 The Swimmer pastel on paper 69 x 88.5 cm Musée d'Orsay, Paris |
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| c1877-78 Part of a Boat oil on canvas 89.5 x 116.7 cm Musée d'Orsay, Paris |
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| c1877 Skiff on the Yerres River oil on canvas 65.7 x 81 cm Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, CA |
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| c1877 Portrait of a Young Woman in an Interior oil on canvas 81 x 65.1 cm Private Collection |
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| c1877 Landscape near Yerres oil on canvas 48 x 65 cm Private Collection |
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| 1878 Bathers on the banks of the Yerres oil on canvas 156.9 x 116.9 cm Private Collection |
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| 1878 A Man docking his Skiff oil on canvas 73.6 x 92.7 cm Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA |
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| 1878 Rue Halévy, view from the sixth floor oil on canvas 59.5 x 73 cm Museum Barberini, Potsdam |
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| 1878 Rooftops under snow oil on canvas 65 x 81 cm Musée d'Orsay, Paris |
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| 1878 Portrait of Paul Hugot oil on canvas 228.6 x 101.6 cm Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK |
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| 1878 Perissoires oil on canvas 156 x 109 cm Musee des Beaux-Arts, Rennes, France |
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| 1878 Fishing oil on canvas 157 x 113 cm Private Collection |
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| c1878 Notre-Dame de Paris, view from the quays oil on canvas 24 x 32.5 cm Private Collection |
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| c1878 Bather preparing to dive oil on canvas 117 x 89 cm Private Collection |
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| c1878 Banks of the Yerres oil on board 15 x 22 cm Private Collection |
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| 1878 The Parc Monceau oil on canvas (Dimesions not found) Private Collection |
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| 1878 The artist's brother in his garden oil on canvas Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX |
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| c1878 The painter under his parasol oil on canvas 80 x 65 cm Private Collection |
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| c1879 Self-Portrait with a hat graphite on off-white paper 49 x 31.5 cm Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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| 1879 Portrait of Jules Richemont oil on canvas 100 x 81 cm Private Collection |
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| 1879 Portrait of Georges Roman oil on canvas 74.5 x 92.5 cm Galerie Michael Haas, Berlin |
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| 1880 Balcony, Boulevard Haussmann oil on canvas 69 x 62 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid |
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| 1880 At the coffee shop oil on canvas 155 x 115 cm Musee des Beaux-Arts Rouen, France |
