Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1894)

Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1894)
Un Jardin à Trouville
1882
Oil on canvas
65 x 81.5cm
Signed 'G Caillebotte' (by Martial Caillebotte), (lower right)
Provenance:
Jacques Lamy, Paris (circa 1894)
P. Verne, Paris
Sale: Christies New York, May 6, 1998, lot 197
Acquired in 2007
Literature:
Marie Berhaut, Gustave Caillebotte, sa vie et son oeuvre, Catalogue Raisonne des peintures et pastels, Paris,
1978, no 199, illustrated p 149
Marie Berhaut, Gustave Caillebotte, catalogue raisonne des peintures et pastels, Paris, 1994, no 232, illustrated p
161
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The year 1882 marked a turning point in Caillebotte's career, as it was the last year in which he participated in
the Impressionist exhibition. In addition to the portraits, interiors and depictions of urban Paris he had produced
in 1882, the artist also executed views of the Normandy coast and the areas around Honfleur and Trouville. As
Marie Berhaut notes, these paintings were an "introduction to the second part of Caillebotte's oeuvre, which
would be devoted almost exclusively to landscapes and seascapes" (quoted in Gustave Caillebotte: Urban
Impressionist, Chicago, 1995, p. 256).
In June of 1880, Caillebotte traveled to Normandy to participate in the regatta at Le Havre. An avid sailor, the
artist returned to the Normandy coast almost every summer thereafter. As Rodolphe Rapetti observes: "In his
Normandy landscapes, Caillebotte was entering territory in which several of his predecessors--notably Eugene
Boudin and Monet--had previously distinguished themselves, in Impressionism's earliest years. These works
inevitably bring to mind certain paintings by Monet (see fig. 1), who sojourned frequently in Normandy beginning
in 1881" (Gustave Caillebotte: Urban Impressionist, Chicago, 1995, p. 257).
Fig. 1 Claude Monet, L'Église de Varengeville à contre-jour,1882, oil on canvas, Barber Institute of Fine Arts,
University of Birmingham, Great Britain
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