Exhibited with the Impressionists in 1876, the painting Young Man at His Window depicts artist Gustave Caillebotte’s brother René standing at a window in their family’s Paris mansion overlooking the streets below. In this illustrated talk, exhibition co-curator Scott Allan outlines how this painting encapsulated Caillebotte’s artistic ambitions as a modern realist at the outset of his career. Allan will share unpublished photographs and archival information about the short-lived René, providing a new and more complicated reading of one of Caillebotte’s most iconic and familiar images.
Framing Young Man at His Window: A Closer Look
Talk
Young Man at His Window, 1876, Gustave Caillebotte. Oil on canvas, 45 11/16 x 31 7/8 in. Getty Museum, 2021.67
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