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Gustave Caillebotte
1848-1894 France/Impressionism
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Brief Biography-Gustave Caillebotte from Paris was an Impressionist painter. He gained a law degree and attended the Ecole des Beaux-Arts before studying in the atelier of Leon Bonnat. The paintings of Edgar Degas and other notable Impressionists of the time whom he supported financially influenced his style.
Caillebotte inherited his father’s business, which made him a wealthy man. He was more a patron of the arts than an artist trying to make a living. He did not have to sell his paintings; many stayed within the family. His whole collection, consisting of other impressionist artists' works, was bequeathed to the State, but they only accepted half; it was in 1928 that they hung in the Louvre. Several artists of his time scorned impressionists, most notably Jean Leon Gerome of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts who objected to ‘such filth’ hanging in the Louvre.
He ceased exhibiting in 1882 and went about hobbies for the remainder of his life, including stamp collecting and yachting. The collector Albert C Barnes later bought part of his collection, which is now in his Philadelphia foundation. Several of his paintings are with the Musée d’Orsay. |
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A Balcony

A soldier

Amount Road

Banks of the Yerres

Boater

Drying Laundry

Fisherman

Fruit on a Display

Gardeners

Garten in Trouville

Head and Ox Tongue

In a Cafe

Interior

Kitchen Garden

Les Orangers

Lunch

L'yerres, rain

Man

Military in a Wood

Woman on a Couch

Nasturces

Oarsmen

Oarsmen Rowing

The Champs Elysees

Paris Street

Part of Boat

Richard Gallo

Sailboats

Swimmer Preparing

Bridge of
Argenteuil

The Bridge of Europe

The Floor Scrapers

Garden

The Gardener

Kitchen Garden

Gennevilliers

Shells

Shells two

Yellow Fields

View of Roof

Villas

Yellow Roses

Man at the Piano

Man at the Window
