Museum Connect : Impressionism

Gustave Caillebotte

1848-1894

〈Rue de Paris, temps de pluie〉, 1877.

〈Les raboteurs de parquet〉, 1875.

Gustave Caillebotte was a French painter who was a member and patron of the Impressionists, although he painted in a more realistic manner than many others in the group. Caillebotte was known for his early interest in photography as an art form.

Caillebotte painted many domestic and familial scenes, interiors, and portraits. Many of his paintings depict members of his family; Young Man at His Window (Jeune Homme à la fenêtre) (1876) shows René in the home on rue de Miromesnil; The Orange Trees (Les Orangers) (1878), depicts Martial Jr. and his cousin Zoé in the garden of the family property at Yerres; and Portraits in the Country (Portraits à la campagne) (1875) includes Caillebotte’s mother along with his aunt, cousin, and a family friend. There are scenes of dining, card playing, piano playing, reading, and sewing, all executed in an intimate, unobtrusive manner that portrays the quiet ritual of upper-class indoor life.

Paul Cézanne

〈Montagne Sainte-Victoire〉, 1882-1885.

〈Boy in a Red Vest〉, 1888-1890.

Vincent Willem van Gogh

〈Starry night〉, 1889.

〈Sun flower〉, 1888.

Paul Gauguin

〈Tahitian Women on the Beach 〉, 1891.

〈Two Women〉, 1901.

Claude Monet

〈Impression, soleil levant〉, 1872.

〈Garden at Sainte-Adresse〉, 1900.

Edgar Degas

〈Ballet 〉, 1873–1876.

〈Young Spartans Exercising〉, 1860.

Auguste Renoir

〈Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette〉, 1876.

〈A Girl with a Watering Can〉, 1876.

Toulouse-Lautrec

〈In The Restaurant La Mie〉, 1891.

〈In The Restaurant La Mie〉, 1892.

Gustave Caillebotte

〈Rue de Paris, temps de pluie〉, 1877.

〈Les raboteurs de parquet〉, 1875.

Francisco Goya

〈El tres de mayo de 1808〉, 1814.

〈Saturn〉, 1820.