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accession number: 2020.260
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Study of a Man with Hands in His Pockets, 1893. Gustave Caillebotte (French, 1848–1894). Black chalk on Arches modern laid paper; sheet: 47.6 x 31.5 cm (18 3/4 x 12 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 2020.260
title: Study of a Man with Hands in His Pockets
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creation date: 1893
creation date earliest: 1893
creation date latest: 1893
current location: 003 Special Exhibition Hall
creditline: John L. Severance Fund
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culture: France, 19th century
technique: black chalk on Arches modern laid paper
department: Drawings
collection: DR - French
type: Drawing
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catalogue raisonne: Chardeau 112
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CREATORS
* Gustave Caillebotte (French, 1848–1894) - artist
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measurements: Sheet: 47.6 x 31.5 cm (18 3/4 x 12 3/8 in.)
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inscription: Stamped, at lower right, in dark purple ink: G. Caillebotte; watermark, at top margin: MBM (for Arches MBM)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
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).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* Gustave Caillebotte, 1848–1894: Dessins, études, peintures. Brame & Lorenceau, Paris (February 28–March 24, 1989).
Gustave Caillebotte, 1848–1894: Dessins, pastels et peintures. Brame & Lorenceau, Paris (October 15–November 27, 1998).
Gustave Caillebotte: Impressionist in Modern Paris. Bridgestone Museum of Art, Tokyo (October 10–December 29, 2013).
Caillebotte, peintre et jardinier. Musée des impressionnismes, Giverny (March 25–July 3, 2016); Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid (July 19–October 30, 2016).
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PROVENANCE
Studio of the artist [1848–1894]
date: 1893-1894
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by descent to his family
date: 1894-1989
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(Brame & Lorenceau, Paris, sold to the Josefowitz Collection, Lausanne)
date: 1989
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(Josefowitz Collection, Lausanne, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH)
date: 1989-2020
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Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 2020-
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fun fact:
Caillebotte and the subject of this drawing, his friend Eugène Lamy, shared a love of yachting and the artist’s suburban home was located near a popular club in Argenteuil.
digital description:
Gustave Caillebotte is known for a realist style that broke from the heavy, visible brushstrokes of his contemporaries. This drawing is a study for the figure of Eugène Lamy, a close friend of the artist with whom he is seen in conversation in the 1893 painting Bank of the Seine at Petit Gennevilliers, Winter (private collection). Using sketchy, diagonal marks, Caillebotte recorded light and shadow on Lamy’s jacket, aligning with the Impressionists’ interest in capturing natural effects and fleeting moments from everyday life.
wall description:
Like other Impressionist artists, Gustave Caillebotte aimed to capture natural effects and fleeting moments of everyday life. This drawing focuses on these attributes in its closely studied image of a friend of the artist. Caillebotte used sketchy, diagonal marks to record light and shadow on the man’s jacket. The artist incorporated the portrait into his painting Bank of the Seine at Petit Gennevilliers, Winter. Although an integral aspect of Caillebotte’s practice, his drawings are rare today. This example complements the artist’s seascape and still life respectively given and promised by the Keithleys, and a portrait given by Muriel Butkin, making the CMA home to one of the most significant collections of Caillebotte’s work inAmerica.
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Berhaut, Marie. Gustave Caillebotte, sa vie et son œuvre: Catalogue raisonné des peintures et pastels. Paris: La Bibliothèque des arts, 1978.
page number: Mentioned: p. 232
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Chardeau, Jean. Les Dessins de Caillebotte. Paris: Hermé, 1989.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 112.
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Gustave Caillebotte, 1848–1894: Dessins, études, peintures. Exh. cat. Paris: Brame & Loreanceau, 1989.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 28, no. H.
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Berhaut, Marie. Gustave Caillebotte: Catalogue raisonné des peintures et pastels. Rev. ed. Paris: Wildenstein Institute, 1994.
page number: Mentioned: p. 248
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Gustave Caillebotte, 1848–1894: Dessins, pastels et peintures. Exh. cat. Paris: Brame & Lorenceau, 1998.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 126-27, no. 75.
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Gustave Caillebotte: Impressionist in Modern Paris. Exh. cat. Tokyo: Bridgestone Museum of Art, 2013.
page number: Mentioned: p. 266, no. 57; Reproduced: p. 167.
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Bocquillon, Marina Ferretti. Caillebotte, peintre et jardinier. Exh. cat. Giverny: Musée des impressionismes, 2016.
page number: Mentioned: pp. 52, 148, no. 2; Reproduced: p. 52.
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IMAGES
web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2020.260/2020.260_web.jpg
print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2020.260/2020.260_print.jpg
full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2020.260/2020.260_full.tif