Five little-known works by the Impressionist painter Gustave Caillebotte, which belonged to the artist’s butler, are now on view at the Musée d’Orsay. They are a remarkable gift made by the great ...
Monet … Degas … Renoir. When we think of French Impressionism, it's the usual suspects who spring to mind. But one lesser-known artist is ripe for rediscovery ...
When Gustave Caillebotte was a child in Paris in the mid-1800s, he had no real intentions of becoming a painter. He earned a law degree in 1868 and began his practice two years later. The art world ...
reporting from WASHINGTON — In the late 19th century, everyone looked on Gustave Caillebotte as a leading painter of the Impressionists. He took part in five of the eight exhibitions that the ...
Women were the common subject for Impressionist painters like Degas, Renoir and Morisot, but Gustave Caillebotte chiefly painted men. The provocative Getty exhibition analyzes representations of ...
Earlier this week, France acquired A Boating Party (1877) by impressionist artist Gustave Caillebotte with the help of $47 million in funding from luxury holdings company, LVMH. The painting will now ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Gustave Caillebotte was so modest that when bequeathing paintings by his Impressionist friends to France — the ...
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'Paris Street, Rainy Day,' 1877 Gustave Caillebotte (French, 1848-1894). Oil on canvas, 83 9/16 x 108 3/4 in (212.2 x 276.2 cm). The Art Institute of Chicago, Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester ...
Gustave Caillebotte (b. 1848). Paris Street, Rainy Day, 1877. On view at the Art Institute of Chicago. (Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection; Art Institute ...
In the 1870s, an emperor and a baron undertook the remaking of Paris: Napoleon III and Baron Georges-Eugene Haussmann's urban renewal project converted clusters of medieval warrens into the Paris we ...