Gustave Caillebotte - Painting the Paris of Naturalism, 1872-1887
Michael Marrinan
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Hardback. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: ACV; AGB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 202 x 271 x 32. Weight in Grams: 1520.
Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1894), the son of a wealthy businessman, is perhaps best known as the painter who organised and funded several of the groundbreaking exhibitions of the Impressionist painters, collected their works, and ensured the Impressionists' presence in the French national museums by bequeathing his own personal collection. Trained at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and sharing artistic sympathies with his renegade friends, Caillebotte painted a series of extraordinary pictures inspired by the look and feel of modern Paris that also grappled with his own place in the Parisian art scene. Michael Marrinan's ambitious study draws upon new ... Read more
Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1894), the son of a wealthy businessman, is perhaps best known as the painter who organised and funded several of the groundbreaking exhibitions of the Impressionist painters, collected their works, and ensured the Impressionists' presence in the French national museums by bequeathing his own personal collection. Trained at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and sharing artistic sympathies with his renegade friends, Caillebotte painted a series of extraordinary pictures inspired by the look and feel of modern Paris that also grappled with his own place in the Parisian art scene. Michael Marrinan's ambitious study draws upon new ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Getty Trust Publications
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
Los Angeles, United States
ISBN
9781606065075
SKU
V9781606065075
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About Michael Marrinan
Michael Marrinan is professor emeritus at Stanford University. He is the coauthor of The Culture of Diagram (2010) and the author of Romantic Paris (2009) and Painting Politics for Louis-Philippe (1988).
Reviews for Gustave Caillebotte - Painting the Paris of Naturalism, 1872-1887
This in-depth study of the life and career of the French painter and patron presents new research documents to create a revealing portrait of Caillebotte and the Parisian art scene in the late 19th century. -Apollo