Caillebotte: Impressionist &
Benefactor
Title: Oarsmen on the Yerres River (Roere), 1877
Artist: Gustave Caillebotte (French 1848-1894)
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Image Courtesy: Ordrupgaard
Gustave Caillebotte
In the midst of Impressionism
Ordrupgaard, Denmark
October 27, 2008 – February 22, 2009
Title: Richard Gallo and His Dog at Petit Gennevilliers, 1884
Artist: Gustave Caillebotte (French 1848-1894)
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 89 x 116cm
Private Collection
Image Courtesy: Ordrupgaard
Caillebotte is often remembered for the financial support that he provided to his fellow impressionists
such as Claude Monet rather than his own artwork. That's unfortunate given some of the outstanding
paintings he created.
Title: Kayaking on the Yerres, 1877
Artist: Gustave Caillebotte (French 1848-1894)
Permanent Collection:
Image Courtesy: Ordrupgaard
Born in Paris, Gustave Caillebotte was the son of a justice in the Seine department's Tribunal de Commerce.
Martial Caillebotte, Gustave's father, inherited the Caillebotte family's military textile business. Gustave
grew up in the Parisian upper class. As a youth he summered in Yerres, and later used that locale as
a basis for subject manner.
Title: Floor Scrapers Gulvafhøvlerne, 1876
Artist: Gustave Caillebotte (French 1848-1894)
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 40 x 57 3/4" (102 x 146.5 cm)
Permanent Collection: Musee d'Orsay, Paris
Image Courtesy: Ordrupgaard
Edgar Degas was the first among the Impressionists to meet and befriend Caillebotte. This meeting took
place in 1874, the year of the first Impressionist exhibition. He joined the group for their second exhibition
in 1876 and among his works displayed was Floor Scrapers. Some, including the officials of the Paris
Salon, found the work "vulgar"; and rejected it.
Many of his best known works are of urban scenes of Paris such as
Paris Street; Rainy Day.
Unlike the other Impressionists, Caillebotte's inheritance and earlier allowance removed the pressures the
other artists felt to sell their works in order to survive. Throughout his life he supported Claude
Monet, Auguste Renoir and Camille Pissarro by his purchase of their works.
Title: Boulevard Haussmann in the Snow, 1879-81
Artist: Gustave Caillebotte (French 1848-1894)
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 117 x 90 cm
Private Collection
Image Courtesy: Ordrupgaard
Denmark's Ordrupgaard has organized an exhibition celebrating Gustave Caillebotte
and his position In the Midst of Impressionism which opens later in October.
Gustave Caillebotte
In the midst of Impressionism
Ordrupgaard:
October 27, 2008 – February 22, 2009
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