Yerres, Effect of Rain, Gustave Caillebotte, oil on canvas, roughly 32 x 23 inches (80x 59 cm). Link is to page on WikiArt, from which you can click “View All Sizes” to get to a larger image. Original is in the Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Read More …
Rooftop View (Snow effect), Gustave Caillebotte On the Google Art Project. Original is in the Musée d’Orsay. There is also a high res image (7.7mb) and short article on Wikipedia. One of my favorite paintings. By anyone. Ever. You’ll see versions of this image on Read More …
The Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt is winding down an exhibition titled Gustave Caillebotte: An Inpressionist and Photography, in which they showcase the compositional and representational relationship between the avant guard painters and the newly popular medium of photography. Caillebotte is, to my mind, much underappreciated as Read More …
As I pointed out in my previous post about Gustave Caillebotte, he is one of my two favorite underappreciated French Impressionist painters (along with Alfred Sisley). Though he was not the draughtsman Degas was (few were), or as facile with brush and color as Monet Read More …
Gustave Caillebotte is one of my two favorite “ignored” Impressionists. (The other being Alfred Sisley, who simply doesn’t get the respect he deserves.) Like Sisley, I find Caillebotte to be less formulaic and slavish to the “ideals” of Impressionism, and more likely to paint directly, Read More …
The late 19th century is one of my favorite periods for art. Not only were a great many of my favorite artists active in that time but I’m constantly discovering artists from the period who are wonderful and new to me. Wikimedia Commons, that cornucopia Read More …