a testament in the service of art

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 issue

This Tuesday, the Luxembourg Museum reopened, with a new annex. It is there, in one of its three rooms, that Léonce Bénédite, curator of the premises, has hung thirty-eight works from the Caillebotte collection: two Cézanne, seven pastels by Degas, The Balcony and theAngelina by Manet, eight Monets, seven Pissarro, six Sisleys and six Renoirs including the Ball at the Galette mill. In the middle of them, like a signature, the Planers de Caillebotte, a donation added to the legacy by the painter’s heirs. This is indeed an event, we have been talking about it for almost three years, and there was a crowd at the inauguration.

Pissarro, as usual, took a gray view: “ bad room, narrow, poorly lit, ugly setting and stupid placement “. All right…