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accession number: 2009.157
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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
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creation date: 1880
creation date earliest: 1880
creation date latest: 1880
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creditline: Bequest of Muriel Butkin
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culture: France, 19th century
technique: oil on canvas
department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture
collection: Mod Euro - Painting 1800-1960
type: Painting
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CREATORS
* Gustave Caillebotte (French, 1848–1894) - artist
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measurements: Unframed: 81.3 x 65.6 cm (32 x 25 13/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity
opening date: 2012-09-25T00:00:00
Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity. Musée d'Orsay, 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).
title: Impressionism to Modernism: The Keithley Collection
opening date: 2022-09-11T04:00:00
Impressionism to Modernism: The Keithley Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 11, 2022-January 8, 2023).
title: Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1894): Painting Men
opening date: 2024-10-08T04:00:00
Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1894): Painting Men. Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France (organizer) (October 8, 2024-January 19, 2025); J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA (February 25-May 25, 2025); The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (June 29-October 5, 2025).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'Gustave Caillebotte. Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, France (1994); Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (1995).', 'opening_date': '1994-01-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': '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).', 'opening_date': '1999-01-01T00:00:00'}
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PROVENANCE
(Galerie Braume and Lorenceau, Paris, France, acquired from the artist's family)
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Noah Butkin [1918-1980], Shaker Heights, OH by inheritance to his wife, Muriel Butkin [1915-2008]
date: 1972-2009
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Estate of Muriel Butkin, Cleveland, OH, bequeathed to the Cleveland Museum of Art
date: -2009
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 2009-
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RELATED WORKS
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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
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Berhaut, Marie, and Sophie Pietri. Gustave Caillebotte: catalogue raisonné des peintures et pastels. Paris, France: Wildenstein Institute, 1994.
page number: Reproduced: p. 126
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Distel, Anne. Gustave Caillebotte, Urban Impressionist. Paris, France: Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 1995.
page number: Reproduced: p. 206-207
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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
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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
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Groom, Gloria Lynn. L'impressionnisme et la mode. Paris, France: Musee d'Orsay, 2012.
page number: Reproduced: p. 212, no. 142
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Groom, Gloria Lynn. Impressionism, Fashion, & Modernity. Chicago, IL: Art Institute of Chicago, 2012.
page number: Reproduced: p. 145, 294
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Bougault, Valérie. “L’Impressionisme en Habits.” Connaissance Des Arts 708 (October 2012): 48–57.
page number: Reproduced: p. 55
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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
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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
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Ng, Aimee, Xavier F. Salomon, Stephen Truax, Hanya Yanagihara, and Jonathan Anderson. Living Histories: Queer Views and Old Masters. New York : The Frick Collection ; Lewes : in association with D Giles Limited, 2023.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 68-69, fig. 17
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Christie, Manson & Woods. Masterpieces from the Collection of Sam Josefowitz: A Lifetime of Discovery and Scholarship. London: Christie's, 2023.
page number: Reproduced: p. 223
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Allan, Scott, Gloria Lynn Groom, and Paul Perrin, eds. Gustave Caillebotte: Painting Men. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2024.
page number: Mentioned: p. 71-72, 212; Reproduced: p. 143, no. 59
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Ameille, Brice. “Les intuitions d'un Portraitiste." Dossiers de l’Art 321 (September 2024): 50-55
page number: Reproduced: p. 51; Mentioned: p. 52
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