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| Self-portrait c1892 oil on canvas 40.5 x 32.5 cm Musée d'Orsay, Paris |
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 - 3 also.
This is part 4 of a 5-part series on the works of Gustave Caillebotte:
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| 1883 Bouquet of roses in a crystal vase oil on canvas 61 x 50.5 cm |
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| 1882 Yellow roses in a vase oil on canvas 53 x 46 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX |
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| 1882 Woman sitting on a red-flowered sofa oil on canvas 78.7 c 88.9 cm Seattle Art Museum, WA |
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| 1882 View of the Sea from Villerville oil on canvas 59.7 x 73.7 cm Private Collection |
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| 1882 Undergrowth alley, Normandy oil on canvas 81 x 62 cm |
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| 1882-84 Wild garden at Petit Gennevilliers oil on canvas 63.7 x 74.2 cm |
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| c1882 The Basin at Argenteuil oil on canvas 65.5 x 81 cm |
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| c1882 Plate with peaches oil on canvas 38 x 46.4 cm Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam |
c1882 Chickens, Game Birds, and Hares:
Known largely for his figure and landscape paintings, Gustave Caillebotte also painted a series of stunning still lifes depicting fruit, shellfish, meat, chickens, and dead game. His exacting eye for realistic detail is evident in this view of chickens, game birds, and rabbits neatly arranged in a butcher shop. Fur, skin, and feathers are rendered with small, broken strokes of kaleidoscopic colour—shimmering blues, deep reds, radiant yellows, and glowing greens. This superb display of Impressionist technique applied to a traditional subject forms a fascinating counterpoint to Caillebotte’s Portrait of a Man in the museum’s collection.
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio.
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| c1882 Chickens, game birds and hares oil on canvas 75.9 x 105.1 cm The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio |
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| c1882 Calf’s Head and Ox Tongue oil on canvas 73 x 54 cm Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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| c1882 Calf in a butcher shop oil on canvas (size not given) Private Collection |
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| 1883 Houses in Argenteuil oil on canvas 65.8 x 53.6 cm |
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| 1883 Game birds and lemons oil on canvas 51 x 81 cm Private Collection |
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| 1883 Boats at anchor, on the Seine, in Argenteuil oil on canvas 65.5 x 54.5 cm |
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| 1883 Avenue of the Villa des Fleurs in Trouville oil on canvas 60 x 73 cm Museum Barberini, Potsdam |
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| 1883 The Seine at Argenteuil, boats at anchor oil on canvas 60.2 x 73 cm Private Collection |
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| 1883 The Promenade at Argenteuil oil on canvas 65 x 82 cm Private Collection |
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| 1883 Portrait of Henri Cordier oil on canvas 65 x 81.5 cm Musee d'Orsay, Paris |
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| 1883 Lilacs and peonies in two vases oil on canvas 92 x 73 cm Museum Barberini, Potsdam |
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| c1883 The Argenteuil bridge and the Seine oil on canvas 65 x 82 cm Museum Barberini, Potsdam |
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| c1883 Bouquet of Chrysanthemums oil on canvas 65 x 54.3 cm |
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| 1884 Man in a Smock or Father Magliore on the road between Saint-clair and Etretat oil on canvas 65 x 54 cm Private Collection |
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| 1884 Man drying his leg oil on canvas 100 x 125 cm |
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| 1884 Man at his bath oil on canvas 144.8 x 114.3 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA |
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| 1884 By the sea at Trouville oil on canvas (details not found) |
1884 Villas at Trouville:
Gustave Caillebotte painted this view of villas at Trouville, a small town on the Normandy coast, using the distinctive plunging perspectives he had developed in his Parisian street scenes. Varying degrees of paint thickness are skilfully employed to evoke a feeling of immense space and distance. The thicker strokes in the foreground contrast with the delicate, wispy strokes in the sea and the pools of sunlight reflected on the distant water.
The Cleveland Museum of Art, OH.
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| 1884 Villas at Trouville oil on canvas 66 x 81.3 cm The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio |
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| 1884 The yellow fields at Gennevilliers oil on canvas 54 x 64.7 cm Wallraf-Richartz Museum,, Cologne, Germany |
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| 1884 Seaside, Normandy oil on vanvas 92.4 x 73 cm |
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| 1884 Richard Gallo and his dog Dick, in Petit-Gennevilliers oil on canvas 89 x 116 cm |
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| c1884 Wild Garden at Le Petit Gennevilliers oil on canvas 63.7 x 74.2 cm Museum Barberini, Potsdam |
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| c1885-86 Sunflowers along the Seine oil on canvas 90.2 x 71.1 cm Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA |
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| 1885-87 The Seine and the Railroad Bridge at Argenteuil oil on canvas 115.6 x 154.9 cm Brooklyn Museum, New York |
c1885 Sunflowers, garden of Petit Gennevilliers:
Due to its size, this view of Caillebotte's garden is one of the most ambitious painted by the artist. It contributes to the redefinition of the landscape genre carried out by the Impressionists.
The garden is one of Caillebotte's favourite themes, who first took as his subject the park of the family estate in Yerres, then, as here, his garden at Petit Gennevilliers, located about ten kilometres from Paris. The artist became a true "painter-gardener" like his friend Monet in Giverny and both were enthusiastic about the "suns", large sunflowers cultivated only as an ornamental plant at that time.
Musée d'Orsay, Paris.
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| c1885 Sunflowers, garden of Petit Gennevilliers oil on canvas 130.5 x 105.8 cm Musée d'Orsay, Paris |
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| c1885 Portrait of Jean Daurelle oil on canvas 65.4 x 54.4 cm Musée d'Orsay, Paris |
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| c1885 Apple Tree in Bloom oil on canvas 83.3 x 60 cm Brooklyn Museum, New York |
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| 1886 The pontoon at Argenteuil oil on canvas (dimensions not found) Private Collection |
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| 1886 Roses in the garden at Petit Gennevilliers oil on canvas 89 x 116 cm Private Collection |
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| 1886 Portrait of Émile-Jean Fontaine, bookseller oil on canvas 65.1 x 81.6 cm |
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| 1887-88 Yellow and red roses in a crystal vase oil on canvas 45.8 x 37.9 cm |
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| 1887 Vase of Gladiolas oil on canvas 81 x 65 cm Private Collection |
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| 1887 Portrait of Jean Daurelle oil on canvas 75.7 x 46.7 cm Musée d'Orsay, Paris |
