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Gustave Caillebotte
Gustave Caillebotte (1848 - 1894), was a French painter, member and patron
of the group of artists known as Impressionists, stamp collector, and yacht engineer.
Gustave Caillebotte was born on August 19, 1848 to an upper-class Parisian family.
His father, Martial Caillebotte (1799-1874), was the inheritor of the family's textile
industry and was also a judge at the Seine's Tribunal de Commerce.
Caillebotte's style belongs to the school of Realism. As did his predecessors Jean-Francois
Millet and Gustave Courbet, as well his contemporary Degas, Caillebotte aimed to paint reality
as it existed and as he saw it, hoping to reduce painting's inherent theatricality. He also
shared the Impressionists' commitment to optical truth. Caillebotte painted many domestic,
familial scenes, interiors, and figures in a landscape at Yerres, but he is most well known
for his paintings of urban Paris, such as The Floor Scrapers, 1875, Le pont de l'Europe, 1876,
and Paris Street, Rainy Day, 1877. These paintings were quite controversial for their banal
and often lower-class subjects, and for their exaggerated, plunging perspective.
For many years, Caillebotte's reputation as a painter was superseded by his reputation as a
supporter of the arts. Seventy years after his death, however, art historians began reevaluating
his artistic contributions.
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