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Gustave Caillebotte
b. Aug. 19, 1848, d. Feb. 21, 1894
French painter and a generous patron of the
impressionists
Rue de Paris, temps de pluie;
Intersection de la Rue de Turin et de la Rue
de Moscou
1877 (100 Kb); Paris: A Rainy Day depicts an
area of the Batignolles quarter.
Oil on canvas, 212.2 x 276.2 cm (83 1/2 x
108 3/4"); The Art Institute of Chicago;
part of the Charles H and Mary F.s.
Worcester Fund |
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Gustave Caillebotte’s own works, until
recently, were neglected.
Gustave Caillebotte was an engineer by
profession, but also attended the Ecole des
Beaux-Arts in Paris. Gustave Caillebotte met Edgar Degas,
Claude Monet, and Pierre Auguste Renoir in
1874 and helped organize the first
impressionist exhibition in Paris that same
year. Gustave Caillebotte participated in later shows and
painted some 500 works in a more realistic
style than that of his friends. |
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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). Caillebotte's superb
collection of impressionist paintings was
left to the French government on Gustave
Caillebotte’s death. With considerable
reluctance the government accepted part of
the collection. |
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