Caillebotte. Painting men.
Orsay Museum / Hazan| N° d'inventaire | 31250 |
| Format | 23 x 29 |
| Détails | 256 p., hardcover |
| Publication | Paris, 2024 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782754117074 |
Bourgeois and workers strolling through Haussmann's Paris, floor planers and boaters caught in the act of exertion, young bachelors playing cards or observing the city from their balconies, naked men at their toilets... Male figures and portraits of men dominate the work of Gustave Caillebotte (1848 – 1894), unlike his colleagues Degas, Manet or Renoir.
Just as much as his immersive framing and complex perspective effects, the way the artist observed and painted the men of his time and those around him constitutes one of his major contributions to Impressionism. In an era of the triumph of military virility, bourgeois patriarchy, and republican fraternity, Caillebotte subtly questioned gender norms and social categories to give substance to a new masculine ideal, at once virile and vulnerable, conquering and melancholic, master of public space but also at ease indoors.
Focusing on the artist's personality and his social circles – his brothers, the Impressionist group and the Cercle de la Voile de Paris – as well as his paintings and drawings, both well-known and lesser-known, this work sheds new light on the life and work of one of the greatest painters of the 19th century.
Bourgeois and workers strolling through Haussmann's Paris, floor planers and boaters caught in the act of exertion, young bachelors playing cards or observing the city from their balconies, naked men at their toilets... Male figures and portraits of men dominate the work of Gustave Caillebotte (1848 – 1894), unlike his colleagues Degas, Manet or Renoir.
Just as much as his immersive framing and complex perspective effects, the way the artist observed and painted the men of his time and those around him constitutes one of his major contributions to Impressionism. In an era of the triumph of military virility, bourgeois patriarchy, and republican fraternity, Caillebotte subtly questioned gender norms and social categories to give substance to a new masculine ideal, at once virile and vulnerable, conquering and melancholic, master of public space but also at ease indoors.
Focusing on the artist's personality and his social circles – his brothers, the Impressionist group and the Cercle de la Voile de Paris – as well as his paintings and drawings, both well-known and lesser-known, this work sheds new light on the life and work of one of the greatest painters of the 19th century.