A riveting retrospective shows how the painter reframed 19th-century Paris
Gustave Caillebotte was so modest that when bequeathing paintings by his Impressionist friends to France — the foundation of the Musée d’Orsay’s great collection — he omitted his own. His most adventurous pictures, too startlingly modern to appeal to conservative French taste, subsequently found homes abroad. Now they are back for the Orsay’s vast, rare retrospective Caillebotte: Painting Men.
Caillebotte as proto-structuralist, fulfilling Baudelaire’s call for a “painter of modern life” by exploring not just the look of the new Paris but its social systems, intersection of people, buildings, infrastructure, is certainly persuasive. Unlike his peers, he portrayed diverse classes: smocked “House Painters” on ladders, his elderly butler “Jean Daurelle”. His career began with the bare-chested, sweaty labourers in “Floor Scrapers”, kneeling and stretching to build his studio.
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