Tag: Caillebotte

Régate à Trouville (1884)

Caillebotte, Gustave (1848-1894) Régate à Trouville (Regatta at Trouville) 1884 Oil on canvas, 60.3 × 73 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo In a view that seems like an uncomposed snapshot, summer villas hug the cliffs above the English Channel at Trouville,…

Albert Courtier

(1844–1922) Albert Courtier in Art: Caillebotte, Gustave (1848-1894) Dans un café 1880 Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rouen     Caillebotte, Gustave (1848-1894) Portrait d’homme 1880 Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland     Works owned by him: Caillebotte, Gustave (1848-1894) Fruits à l’étalage c.1881–1882 Museum of Fine…

Le Pont de l’Europe (c.1876)

Caillebotte, Gustave (1848-1894) Le pont de l’Europe c.1876 Oil on canvas Private collection Compare: Caillebotte, Gustave (1848-1894) Étude pour “Le Pont de l’Europe” 1876 Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo     Caillebotte, Gustave (1848-1894) Le Pont de l’Europe 1876 Musée du Petit Palais, Genève  …

Portrait de Madame X (1878)

Caillebotte, Gustave (1848-1894) Portrait de Madame X (Portrait of Madame X) 1878 Pastel, 63 x 50 cm Musée Fabre, Montpellier A central figure in Impressionism, Caillebotte trained in 1871 in the very academic studio of Léon Bonnat. While he passed the entrance…

Dahlias (1893)

Caillebotte, Gustave (1848-1894) Dahlias (Garden at Petit Gennevilliers) 1893 Oil on canvas, 157 x 114 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington A leader of the impressionist movement — a central exhibitor and organizing force for several of their exhibitions between 1876 and…

Skiffs (1877)

Caillebotte, Gustave (1848-1894) Skiffs 1877 Oil on canvas, 88.9 x 116.2 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington We look slightly down onto the surface of a river in which three narrow canoes, each paddled by a single person, are being rowed toward…

La Sieste (1877)

Caillebotte, Gustave (1848-1894) La Sieste (The Nap) 1877 Pastel on paper, 35 x 50 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford

Poulets, gibier à plumes et lièvres (c.1882)

Caillebotte, Gustave (1848-1894) Poulets, gibier à plumes et lièvres (Chickens, Game Birds, and Hares) c.1882 Oil on canvas, 76 x 105 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Caillebotte balanced the notion of the wild with the orderly in this painting, as…

Portrait d’homme (1880)

Caillebotte, Gustave (1848-1894) Portrait d’homme (Portrait of a Man) 1880 Oil on canvas, 81.3 x 65.6 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Among Gustave Caillebotte’s most celebrated works are his views of modern Paris seen from balconies and terraces, a theme…

Villas à Trouville (1884)

Caillebotte, Gustave (1848-1894) Villas à Trouville (Villas at Trouville) 1884 Oil on canvas, 66 x 81.3 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Gustave Caillebotte painted this view of villas at Trouville, a small town on the Normandy coast, using the distinctive…