Gustave Caillebotte
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Gustave Caillebotte |
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Male |
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Paris, France |
| Nationality: |
French |
| Birth: |
1848 |
| Death: |
1894 |
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Realist |
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Painter
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Biography
| Gustave Caillebotte, 1848-1894, was a French Realist painter as well as a patron of many leading Impressionist painters, including Monet, Renoir and Pissarro. As a young man, Caillebotte was educated as a lawyer and engineer, but was drafted to fight in the Franco-Prussian War. After returning from the war, Caillebotte trained as a painter under Leon Bonnat and attended the Ecole de Beaux-Artes in Paris for a time, painting nature scenes in the style of realism. After meeting and befriending several Impressionist painters, including Degas and Nittis, however, Caillebotte's works became increasingly less bound by realism and more impressionistic. From the late 1970s onward, Caillebotte showed many works at the Impressionist Exhibition, and was often involved in the organization of the exhibition as well. Some of his most famous works take Parisian street scenes as the subject, and include Rue de Paris; temps de pluie and Le pont de l'Europe. |
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