23. Caillebotte, The Man at the Window, 1876

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Description: Young Man at His Window (Jeune homme à sa fenêtre)

TitleYoung Man at His Window (Jeune homme à sa fenêtre)

Creator nameCaillebotte, Gustave

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1876

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions46 × 32 1/4 in. (117 × 82 cm)

LocationJ. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/10A2Y1

Accession number2021.67

SubjectsArchitecture--France--Paris--History--19th centuryPromenades (Pedestrian areas)Impressionism (Art)--FranceRealism in artDomestic space in artWindows in artPortrait painting, French

StatusAcquired at auction by the J. Paul Getty Museum on November 11, 2021

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4. The Impressionist Agenda

Albert Boime

Art and the French Commune: Imagining Paris after War and Revolution

~I WANT to begin this chapter with the case study of Gustave Caillebotte, both patron of, and participant in, the Impressionist collective. He was the youngest (born 1848) and most well off of the group, and the most conservative in style and content. His major works attest to a thorough assimilation of the rhetoric of...

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Albert Boime

PublisherPrinceton University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.77-113

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00021.007

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Chapter subject tags:Paris (France)--History--Commune, 1871Impressionism (Art)--FranceCaillebotte, Gustave, 1848-1894Painting, French--19th centuryArt and society--France--History--19th centuryLabor in art--France--19th centuryArt and industry--France--19th centuryGrands boulevards (Paris, France)--19th centuryHaussmann, Georges Eugène, baron, 1809-1891Monet, Claude, 1840-1926Degas, Edgar, 1834-1917

2. 1879 / The Impressionist Moment

Marnin Young

Realism in the Age of Impressionism: Painting and the Politics of Time

Gustave Caillebotte first presented his Decorative Triptych at the fourth exhibition of “independent artists” in the spring of 1879 (figs....

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Marnin Young

PublisherYale University Press

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https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00100.005

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Chapter subject tags:Impressionism (Art)--FranceCaillebotte, Gustave, 1848-1894Painting, French--19th centuryArt criticism--France--History--19th centuryMonet, Claude, 1840-1926Leisure in art--France--History--19th centuryConsumer (Economics)--France--History--19th centuryDegas, Edgar, 1834-1917Photography--France--History--19th century

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Impressionism: Art, Leisure, and Parisian Society

When Henry Tuckerman came to Paris in 1867, one of the thousands of Americans attracted there by the huge international exposition, he was bowled over by the extraordinary changes since his previous visit twenty years before...

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Robert L. Herbert

PublisherYale University Press

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Chapter subject tags:Impressionism (Art)--FranceParis (France)--History--1789-1900Grands boulevards (Paris, France)Haussmann, Georges Eugène, baron, 1809-1891Industrialization--Europe--HistoryMonet, Claude, 1840-1926Art and society--France--History--19th centuryRenoir, Auguste, 1841-1919Manet, Édouard, 1832-1883Degas, Edgar, 1834-1917Caillebotte, Gustave, 1848-1894

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