Published on 20/12/2024 08:51
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Caillebotte: the forgotten impressionist
The Musée d'Orsay is paying tribute to Gustave Caillebotte at the end of the year with the offer of an exhibition called “Painting Men”, during which we discover the artist's works. Often forgotten, Gustave Caillebotte is, however, one of the masters of Impressionism and a precursor in his field.
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The Musée d'Orsay is paying tribute to Gustave Caillebotte at the end of the year with the offer of an exhibition called “Painting Men”, during which we discover the artist's works. Often forgotten, Gustave Caillebotte is, however, one of the masters of Impressionism and a precursor in his field.
Today he is the star painter exhibited at the Musée d'Orsay. Gustave Caillebotte and his famous boat trip, his water sports scenes, his views of Paris, his floor planers. At the end of the 19th century, everything in his paintings was revolutionary: their subjects, their scenes taken from life and above all their immersive framing. “There is something pre-photographic, even pre-cinematic in his work, in this desire to have very immediate and above all to seize the moment”, says the curator of the exhibition, Paul Perrin.
But for more than a century, this major painter was almost forgotten. He remained best known as a wealthy patron of Impressionism. A great bourgeois who grew up in a large house in Essonne where he painted 89 masterpieces. An ease which does not prevent the little Caillebottes from acquiring the taste for effort that we find in one of his paintings.
