Gustave Caillebotte
Painting Men
by Edited by Scott Allan, Gloria Groom, and Paul Perrin
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Pub Date Jan 07 2025 | Archive Date Dec 17 2024
Getty Publications | J. Paul Getty Museum
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Description
More than any other French Impressionist, painter Gustave Caillebotte (1848–1894) observed and depicted the many men in his life, including his brothers and friends, employees, and the workers and bourgeois in his Parisian neighborhood. Male subjects feature prominently in some of his best-known works, such as The Floor Scrapers, Man at His Bath, Young Man at His Window, Boating Party, and Paris Street, Rainy Day. The originality of his paintings of men is fully explored for the first time in this catalogue, published to accompany a major international exhibition co-organized by the J. Paul Getty Museum, Musée d’Orsay, and the Art Institute of Chicago.
Alongside paintings, drawings, and photographs, as well as an appendix featuring maps and new biographical research that sheds light on Caillebotte’s social network, this volume includes historically grounded thematic essays by curators and leading scholars. By exploring the complex and varied facets of Caillebotte’s identity—as son, brother, soldier, bachelor, amateur, sportsman, and so on—these essays pose questions of identity, leaving space for ambiguous and fluid expressions of gender and masculinity—for both Caillebotte and the larger late nineteenth-century French world.
This volume is published to accompany an exhibition on view at the Musée d’Orsay from October 8, 2024, to January 19, 2025, J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center from March 25 to May 25, 2025, and The Art Institute of Chicago from June 29 to October 5, 2025.
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781606069448 |
| PRICE | $50.00 (USD) |
| PAGES | 264 |
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Featured Reviews
Michael C, Reviewer
My knowledge of art and art history is essentially zero. But, I know what I like and I LOVE the Impressionists. Manet and Bonnard being at the top of my list. It blows my mind that this group of artists were considered wild and boundary breakers, revolutionaries! I’d not heard of Caillebotte until last week when someone mentioned his work “Les raboteurs” (if you are unfamiliar look it up! Stunning, provocative, remarkable). Then I found a new book on NetGalley from the Getty Collection and they gave me an early review copy! What luck. He’s now at the top of my list. A tie-in with a new exhibition of his work featuring males, this book examines in-depth his large attention to works featuring men. It’s fascinating to try and dissect what an artist was doing, using what was happening culturally and politically at the time, while also discussing our modern attitudes towards the male figure in art. I devoured every word, mesmerizing! Much like the paintings here. Caillebotte’s men are often depicted facing away from the viewer, but his portraits, at least to me, have an energy, their subjects all seeming to have a knowing that you are watching them and should desire them. One of his most famous (now) and controversial (then) works is off a man dying off after a bath. It’s unavoidable that the audience can’t intimately gaze at the man’s bottom. There’s much discussion of what he was trying to achieve, and why it was so shocking. It’s quite fun and a little frustrating that we’ll never know.
I can’t wait to catch this exhibition in Paris, it’s also coming to LA and Chicago in 2025. This is one of my top books for 2024!
