NARRATIVE – Despite their human and artistic connections, the two artists quickly became rivals within the impressionist group. Their quarrel did not, however, prevent mutual esteem.
This article is taken from Figaro Special issue “Caillebotte, the impressionist moment”. Find in this issue a special report on this talented artist who was the ringleader of the Impressionists.
Figaro Special Edition
If fourteen years separate the birth of Edgar Degas from that of Gustave Caillebotte, everything seems to bring the two men together. They belong to the Parisian bourgeoisie, a “comfortable bourgeoisie”, Huysmans tells us. Degas followed the teaching of a disciple of Ingres, Lamothe, whose severe discipline he adopted. Caillebotte will frequent Bonnat’s workshop, one of Degas’ academic relations. Bonnat transmitted to his students a taste for realism, which Caillebotte established as a dogma.
Caillebotte’s neighbor was Henri Rouart, a close friend of Degas. A polytechnician, Rouart devotes himself to painting better than as an amateur. He exhibited at the Salon, before joining the Impressionists. Like Degas, he participated in seven of their eight…
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