id: 167142 accession number: 2009.157 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2009.157 updated: 2022-04-22 09:00:56.532000 Portrait of a Man, 1880. Gustave Caillebotte (French, 1848–1894). Oil on canvas; unframed: 81.3 x 65.6 cm (32 x 25 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Muriel Butkin 2009.157 title: Portrait of a Man title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1880 creation date earliest: 1880 creation date latest: 1880 current location: 222 Impressionism & Post-Impressionism creditline: Bequest of Muriel Butkin copyright: --- culture: France, 19th century technique: oil on canvas department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture collection: Mod Euro - Painting 1800-1960 type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Gustave Caillebotte (French, 1848–1894) - artist --- measurements: Unframed: 81.3 x 65.6 cm (32 x 25 13/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity opening date: 2012-09-25T00:00:00 Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity. Musée d'Orsay, 75343 Paris, France (September 25, 2012-January 12, 2013); The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (February 19-May 27, 2013); The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (organizer) (June 29-September 29, 2013). title: Gustave Caillebotte: The Painter's Eye opening date: 2015-06-28T00:00:00 Gustave Caillebotte: The Painter's Eye. National Gallery of Art, Landover, MD (organizer) (June 28-October 4, 2015); Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX (November 8, 2015-February 14, 2016). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Gustave Caillebotte. Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, France (1994); Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (1995). * Faces of Impressionism: Portraits from American Collections. Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (1999). --- PROVENANCE (Galerie Braume and Lorenceau, Paris, France, acquired from the artist's family) date: footnotes: citations: Noah Butkin [1918-1980], Shaker Heights, OH by inheritance to his wife, Muriel Butkin [1915-2008] date: 1972-2009 footnotes: citations: Estate of Muriel Butkin, Cleveland, OH, bequeathed to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: -2009 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 2009- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: Before becoming a painter, Gustave Caillebotte studied to be a lawyer. digital description: wall description: Among Gustave Caillebotte’s most celebrated works are his views of modern Paris seen from balconies and terraces, a theme that first appeared in his paintings of the mid-1870s. This painting depicts a middle-aged man sitting in room and looking toward a window with laced curtains. His fashionable suit and bow tie are markers of his social status as a flâneur of the urban bourgeoisie. Rather than wearing an expression of joy or delight, the sunlight raking across his face accentuates his heavily lidded eyes and sagging facial muscles, giving him a deeply contemplative expression as he gazes at the world from the comfort of his sumptuous apartment. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Berhaut, Marie. Caillebotte: sa vie et son oeuvre : catalogue raisonné des peintures et pastels. Paris, France: La Bibliothèque des Arts, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p, 125 url: Berhaut, Marie, and Sophie Pietri. Gustave Caillebotte: catalogue raisonné des peintures et pastels. Paris, France: Wildenstein Institute, 1994. page number: Reproduced: p. 126 url: Distel, Anne. Gustave Caillebotte, Urban Impressionist. Paris, France: Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 1995. page number: Reproduced: p. 206-207 url: Distel, Anne. Gustave Caillebotte: The Unknown Impressionist. London, United Kingdom: Royal Academy of Arts, in association with Ludion Press, Ghent, 1996. page number: Reproduced: p. 206-207, Mentioned: p. 244-245 url: Johnston, Sona, Susan Bollendorf, and John House. Faces of Impressionism: Portraits from American Collections. Baltimore, MD: Baltimore Museum of Art in association with Rizzoli International, 1999. page number: Reproduced: p. 46-47 url: Groom, Gloria Lynn. L'impressionnisme et la mode. Paris, France: Musee d'Orsay, 2012. page number: Reproduced: p. 212, no. 142 url: Groom, Gloria Lynn. Impressionism, Fashion, & Modernity. Chicago, IL: Art Institute of Chicago, 2012. page number: Reproduced: p. 145, 294 url: Bougault, Valérie. “L’Impressionisme en Habits.” Connaissance Des Arts 708 (October 2012): 48–57. page number: Reproduced: p. 55 url: Morton, Mary G., George T. M. Shackelford, and Gustave Caillebotte. Gustave Caillebotte: The Painter's Eye. Washington, DC : National Gallery of Art ; Chicago, IL : Hardcover copublished by the University of Chicago Press, 2015. page number: Reproduced: P. 143, no. 7 url: Marrinan, Michael. Gustave Caillebotte: Painting the Paris of Naturalism, 1872-1887. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2016. page number: Reproduced: p. 220, fig. 111 Mentioned: p. 224,226, 229, 232 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2009.157/2009.157_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2009.157/2009.157_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2009.157/2009.157_full.tif