Gustave Caillebotte

(French, 1848–1894)

Room Paintings holds six paintings by Gustave Caillebotte, from the Cleveland Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago and The Met. They date from 1877 to 1893. We file all of them under Impressionism. The most common subjects are architecture, cityscapes and flowers. All of them suit a room in our lists, most often the home office and bathroom.

Styles

Impressionism 6

Rooms

Museums

The 6 paintings

Life-size painting of an urban scene in Paris.

Gustave Caillebotte Paris Street; Rainy Day, 1877 Art Institute of Chicago

Portrait of a Man, Gustave Caillebotte, 1880, oil on canvas

Gustave Caillebotte Portrait of a Man, 1880 Cleveland Museum of Art

Villas at Trouville, Gustave Caillebotte, 1884, oil on canvas

Gustave Caillebotte Villas at Trouville, 1884 Cleveland Museum of Art

Chrysanthemums in the Garden at Petit-Gennevilliers, Gustave Caillebotte, 1893, oil on canvas

Gustave Caillebotte Chrysanthemums in the Garden at Petit-Gennevilliers, 1893 The Met

We look slightly down onto the surface of a river in which three narrow canoes, each paddled by a single person, are being rowed toward us in this horizontal landscape painting.

Gustave Caillebotte Skiffs, 1877 National Gallery of Art

A woman stands on a sun-dappled path, which runs past a bank of blooming flowers and back to a cottage in this vertical painting.

Gustave Caillebotte Dahlias, Garden at Petit Gennevilliers, 1893 National Gallery of Art