Gustave Caillebotte
French painter (1848–1894)
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He painted with the Impressionists but kept a sharper edge — more realist than dreamy — and his family money let him bankroll the movement while building the collection that would anchor France's claim to its own revolution in art.
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Gustave Caillebotte was born in Paris on 19 August 1848 into wealth that freed him to paint and to support others. He joined the Impressionists as member and patron both, though his own work leaned toward a cleaner realism than theirs. He took early interest in photography, and that eye shows: his best-known canvas, Paris Street; Rainy Day, plays like a staged scene, all geometry and wet cobblestones. When he died on 21 February 1894, he left his collection of Impressionist paintings to the French Republic — a bequest that sparked controversy but became the core of the national collection. The…
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