At the time, the art establishment deemed only rustic peasants or farmers acceptable subjects from the working class. A second version, in a more realistic style resembling that of Degas, also was exhibited, demonstrating Caillebotte's range of technique and his adept restatement of the same subject matter. Article Wikipedia article References Wikipedia article. Wikipedia: en. Gustave Caillebotte Artworks.
Skiffs on the Yerres Gustave Caillebotte The Nap Gustave Caillebotte Orchard and avenue of trees Gustave Caillebotte White and Yellow Chrysanthemums Gustave Caillebotte The Argenteuil Bridge Gustave Caillebotte Regatta at Argenteuil Gustave Caillebotte Orchids Gustave Caillebotte Four Vases of Chrysanthemums Gustave Caillebotte Chrysanthemums in a Vase Gustave Caillebotte Boats on the Seine Gustave Caillebotte Gustave Caillebotte died suddenly of a stroke one afternoon while tending to the orchid collection in his garden.
He was just 45 years old and had slowly become less interested in painting his own work — focusing instead on supporting his artist friends, cultivating his garden and building racing yachts to sell on the River Seine which his property backed on to. He had never married, although he left a significant sum of money to a woman with whom he had shared a relationship before his death. Charlotte Berthier was eleven years younger than Gustave and due to her lower social status, it would not have been deemed proper for them to officially marry.
Although mixing with many of the other most well-known painters of his day, and exhibiting alongside them, Gustave Caillebotte was not particularly well regarded as an artist during his life.
His work supporting artists, both buying and collecting their work, was what made him a noteworthy societal figure during his lifetime. After all, owing to his family wealth, he had never had to sell his works to make a living. As a result, his work never received the kind of public veneration that artists and gallerists pushing for commercial success might have otherwise relied on.
Upon his death, he had stipulated in his will that the works in his collection be left to the French government and that they be displayed in the Palais du Luxembourg.
However, he did not include any of his own paintings in the list of those which he left to the government.
Renoir, who was the executor of his will, eventually negotiated that the collection be hung in the Palace. The subsequent exhibition was the first public display of Impressionist works which had the support of the establishment and as such, those names whose work was shown which obviously excluded Caillebotte became the great icons of the movement which he had had such an important role in shaping.
It was only many years later, when his surviving family began to sell off his work in the s, that he began to become the focus of more retrospective scholarly interest. Born in , Gustave Caillebotte grew up in a comfortable and bourgeoise Parisian family as the son of Martial Caillebotte, a judge for the Tribunal de commerce who was a founding partner in the company Chambry et Cie, which was responsible for supplying bedding materials to the military. It was during his teen years, when his family enjoyed their summers on their large estate in Yerres, that a young Caillebotte began to paint and draw, igniting an artistic passion that would shape his life.
Initially, Caillebotte had not intended to pursue a career in art. Rather, he obtained a law degree. At the end of his studies, the Franco-Prussian war began and he was drafted to serve in the National Guard. It was upon his return that he decided to seriously pursue a career as an artist.
The basin at Argenteuil Private Collection. Caillebotte will make a donation of his collection, in his will written in , in these terms: "I give to the French State the paintings which I have; nevertheless, since I want that this donation be accepted and in such a manner that the paintings go neither in an attic nor in a province museum, but well in the Luxembourg Museum and later in the Louvre Museum, it is necessary that a certain time passes before execution of this clause until the public, I do not say understand, but admit this new painting.
This time may be twenty years at the maximum. Until then, my brother Martial, and at his defect another of my heirs, will preserve them. I request Renoir to be my executor Caillebotte was to die into of an attack of apoplexy. In , the French State however authorize the National Museums to select some paintings of the embarassing Caillebotte's legacy which might be exhibited in the Musee du Luxembourg.
Thus the Senate will be seized of this problem. Boulevard des Italiens Private Collection. It is this donation, which Renoir had the merit to impose to the French State after the death of Caillebotte, which makes France have in its inheritance major works of Monet, Degas, Sisley, Renoir Zola , who will take the party of the Impressionists vilified by critics and refused by the jury of the Salon, will be critical with regard to Caillebotte of whom he will denounce "photographic" realism at the time of the second Impressionist exhibition.
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