Ref No. Caillebotte 1 A Balcony 1880 |
Ref No. Caillebotte 2 A Balcony in Paris 1880 |
Ref No. Caillebotte 3 A Road Near Naples 1872 |
Ref No. Caillebotte 4 Anchored Boat on the Seine at Argenteuil1888 |
Alexandre Cabanel Naissance De Venus Alexandre Cabanel The Death of Francesca and Paolo William Cahill Grandmother's Gown Gustave Caillebotte Rue De Paris, Temps De Pluie Gustave Caillebotte The Canoes Gustave Caillebotte Young Man at His Window Gustave Caillebotte Seascape Gustave Caillebotte Thatched Cottage at Trouville Gustave Caillebotte View of Paris Gustave Caillebotte Fruit Displayed on a Stand Gustave Caillebotte The Skiffs Gustave Caillebotte Le pont de l'Europe Gustave Caillebotte The Floor Scrapers Gustave Caillebotte View of Rooftops Gustave Caillebotte The Orange Trees Gustave Caillebotte The Floor Scrapers Gustave Caillebotte Fruit Displayed on a Stand Gustave Caillebotte Balcony Gustave Caillebotte View Across a Balcony Gustave Caillebotte The House Painters Gustave Caillebotte Oarsmen Gustave Caillebotte Young Man Playing the Piano Gustave Caillebotte Still Life Gustave Caillebotte The Bezique Game Gustave Caillebotte In a Caf? Gustave Caillebotte Luncheon Gustave Caillebotte Portrait of Eugene Daufresne Gustave Caillebotte A Soldier Gustave Caillebotte Oarsman in a Top Hat Gustave Caillebotte Sculls
Gustave Caillebotte, b. Aug. 19, 1848, d. Feb. 21, 1894, was a French painter and a generous patron of the impressionists.He was an engineer by profession, but also attended the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He met Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, and Pierre Auguste Renoir in 1874 and helped organize the first impressionist exhibition in Paris that same year. He participated in later shows and painted some 500 works in a more realistic style than that of his friends. Caillebotte's most intriguing paintings are those of the broad, new Parisian boulevards. The boulevards were painted from high vantage points and were populated with elegantly clad figures strolling with the expressionless intensity of somnambulists, as in Boulevard Vu d'en Haut (1880; private collection, Paris).