Gustave
Caillebotte, 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.
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