Gustave Caillebotte {kah-yuh-buht'}, b. Aug. 19, 1848,
d. Feb. 21, 1894, was a French painter and a generous patron of the impressionists, whose own works,
until recently, were neglected. 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).
Caillebotte's superb collection of impressionist paintings was left to the French government on his
death. With considerable reluctance the government accepted part of the collection.
CGFA - Virtual Art Museum
Carol L. Gerten maintains an impressive image library of meticulously
scanned works from hundreds of renowned artists, including this collection
featuring 4 of Caillebotte's paintings.
Patron of the Impressionists
Elenore Welles shares her insights on Caillebotte's influence as a patron
of the Impressionist artists, and how his own works reflected the changes
wrought on Paris by Baron Georges Haussmann.
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