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    Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1894)
    Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1894)
    Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1894)
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    Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1894)

    By Nathalia Brodskaïa and Victoria Charles

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    The five hundred or more paintings of Caillebotte werenot given much attention during his lifetime. For years, he was considered primarily a generous patron ofimpressionists, but not as a painter in his own right. Later,his style was seen to be more realistic than those of his friends Degas, Monet and Renoir. In 1874, he helped to organise the First Impressionist Exhibition. However, hedid not include his own work – he would show in laterimpressionist exhibitions. In this typical work he capturesthe feeling of a new Parisian boulevard in an area of theBatignolles quarter on a rainy day. The realism with which Caillebotte depicts the scene is later praised by the writer Emile Zola: “Paris Street, Rainy Day displays strollers and, in particular, a man and a woman in the foreground, of a beautiful realism. When his talent will have softened a little, Caillebotte will certainly be the most audacious of the group.”
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherParkstone International
    Release dateApr 11, 2018
    ISBN9781683256939
    Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1894)

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      Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1894) - Nathalia Brodskaïa

      Gustave Caillebotte and Bergère at the Place du Carrousel, February 1892

      Photograph, 15 x 11 cm. Private collection.

      Biography

      1848: Gustave Caillebotte is born on 19 August as the eldest of three sons of the cloth merchant Martial Caillebotte and his third wife Céleste Daufresne in Paris.

      1857-1862: Caillebotte attends the public school Lycée Louis-le-Grand in Vanves and following his graduation begins his study of law.

      1869: In April Caillebotte completes his undergraduate studies with the diplôme de bachelier en droit.

      1870: After the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War, he is drafted into the Garde nationale mobile de la Seine. He receives a temporary exemption and in July of the same year he completes his law studies successfully with the license en droit.

      1871: Caillebotte is dismissed from military service. He travels with his brothers Alfred and René Caillebotte to Sweden and Norway.

      1872: He embarks with his father on a journey to Italy. In Naples he visits the painter Giuseppe de Nittis, whereupon he paints his earliest known paintings such as A Road near Naples. In the same year he studies under the French painter Léon Bonnat.

      1873: After his admission at the École des Beaux-Arts Caillebotte enrolls in various painting courses, but he only visits the drawing class by Adolphe Yvon. His classmates include Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir.

      1874: Caillebotte participates in the planning of the first exhibition of the Impressionist group with Degas, Monet, and Renoir, which takes place in the same year in Paris. On 25 December his father dies and leaves the family, in addition to a large sum of money, several tenements, estates, bonds, and fixed income. Caillebotte’s mother retains the estate in Yerres, where Caillebotte painted numerous landscapes until 1879.

      1876: In this and the following years (1877, 1879, 1880, and 1892) Caillebotte finances and organises Impressionist exhibitions. In autumn his younger brother René Caillebotte dies at the age of twenty-five, after which the artist wrote his first will.

      1878: Caillebotte’s mother dies.

      1879: The family house in Yerres is sold.

      1880: After four years of membership Caillebotte becomes vice president in the Parisian sailing club Cercle de la Voile de Paris. He shares the passion for sailing – a motif which appears in many of his pictures – with his youngest brother, Martial Caillebotte.

      1881: Caillebotte purchases a country house in Petit Gennevilliers.

      1882: Caillebotte tries to be a boat builder.

      1885: The artist founds under the name Chantiers Luce his own boat building operation.

      1887: Caillebotte moves to the estate at Petit Gennevilliers, the surroundings of which he depicts in his paintings.

      1888: Along with Armand Guillaumin Caillebotte is invited to Brussels to the opening of the 1884 annual exhibition of Brussels’ artists association Les XX (Les Vingt). The exhibiting artists included, amongst others, Paul Signac and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.

      1894: Caillebotte dies on 21 February at the age of forty-five due to a stroke he suffered while working on a landscape painting in his garden at Petit Gennevilliers.

      Impression, Sunrise was the prescient title of one of Claude Monet’s paintings shown in 1874 in the first exhibition of the Impressionists, or as they called themselves then, the Société anonyme des artistes, peintres, sculpteurs, graveurs (The Anonymous Society of Artists, Painters, Sculptors, and Engravers). Monet had gone painting in his childhood home town of Le Havre to prepare for the event, eventually selecting his best Le Havre landscapes for display. Edmond Renoir, journalist brother of Renoir the painter, compiled the catalogue. He criticised Monet for the uniform titles of his works, for the painter had not come up with anything more interesting than View of Le Havre. Among these Le Havre landscapes was a canvas painted in the early morning depicting a blue fog that seemed to transform the shapes of yachts into ghostly apparitions. The painting also depicted smaller boats gliding over the water in black silhouette, and above the horizon the flat, orange disk of the sun, its first rays casting an orange path across the sea. It was more like a rapid study than a painting, a spontaneous sketch done in oils – what better way to seize the fleeting moment when sea and sky coalesce before the blinding light of day? View of Le Havre was obviously an

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