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Gustave Caillebotte: Painting Men
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Boating Party (detail), about 1877–78, Gustave Caillebotte. Oil on canvas. Musée d’Orsay, Paris. Painting listed “national treasure” by the French Republic, acquired with the exclusive patronage of LVMH, major patron of the Musée d’Orsay, 2022. Photo: Grand Palais RMN (Musée d’Orsay)/Franck Raux
French painter Gustave Caillebotte’s interest in male subjects sharply distinguishes him from his Impressionist peers. Overwhelmingly, he observed and depicted the men in his life—including his brothers, bachelor friends, fellow sportsmen, and the workers and bourgeois of his neighborhood—and did so in bracingly original paintings that often subverted artistic and gender norms. His distinctive vision of modern masculinity is considered here for the first time in a major international loan exhibition.
This exhibition is presented in English and Spanish. Esta exhibición se presenta en inglés y en español.
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Selected Works
Floor Scrapers
1875, Gustave Caillebotte. Oil on canvas. Musée d’Orsay, Paris. Gift of the heirs of Caillebotte through his executor Auguste Renoir, 1894. Photo: Musée d'Orsay. dist Grand Palais RMN / Patrice Schmidt
Young Man at his Window
1876, Gustave Caillebotte. Oil on canvas. Getty Museum
Paris Street, Rainy Day
1877, Gustave Caillebotte. Oil on canvas. The Art Institute of Chicago. Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection, 1964.336. Photo: Art Resource, NY
On the Pont de l’Europe
About 1877, Gustave Caillebotte. Oil on canvas. Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas
Boating Party
About 1877–78, Gustave Caillebotte. Oil on canvas. Musée d’Orsay, Paris. Painting listed “national treasure” by the French Republic, acquired with the exclusive patronage of LVMH, major patron of the Musée d’Orsay, 2022. Photo: Grand Palais RMN (Musée d’Orsay) / Franck Raux
In a Café
1880, Gustave Caillebotte. Oil on canvas. Musée d'Orsay, Paris. On deposit at the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rouen. Photo: Grand Palais RMN (Musée d'Orsay) / Martine Beck-Coppola
Portrait of Mr. G. [Gallo]
1881, Gustave Caillebotte. Oil on canvas. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri. Purchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust through the generosity of Mrs. George C. Reuland through the W. J. Brace Charitable Trust and through exchange of the bequests of Mr. and Mrs. William James Brace and Frances Logan; the gifts of Harold Woodbury Parsons, Mr. and Mrs. Henry W. Bloch, and the Laura Nelson Kirkwood Residuary Trust; and other Trust properties, 89-35. Image courtesy Nelson-Atkins Media Services
The Bezique Game
About 1881, Gustave Caillebotte. Oil on canvas. Louvre Abu Dhabi. Image © Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi / Photo APF
Man at His Bath
1884, Gustave Caillebotte. Oil on canvas. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Museum purchase with funds by exchange from an anonymous gift, Bequest of William A. Coolidge, Juliana Cheney Edwards Collection, and from the Charles H. Bayley Picture and Painting Fund, Mary S. and Edward J. Holmes Fund, Fanny P. Mason Fund in memory of Alice Thevin, Arthur Gordon Tompkins Fund, Gift of Mrs. Samuel Parkman Oliver—Eliza R. Oliver Fund, Sophie F. Friedman Fund, Robert M. Rosenberg Family Fund, and funds donated in honor of George T. M. Shackelford, Chair, Art of Europe, and Arthur K. Solomon Curator of Modern Art, 1996–2011. Photo © 2025 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Self-Portrait
About 1892, Gustave Caillebotte. Oil on canvas. Musée d’Orsay, Paris. Acquired with funds from an anonymous Canadian donation, 1971. Photo: Grand Palais RMN (Musée d'Orsay) / Martine Beck-Coppola
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Gustave Caillebotte: Curators in Conversation
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