Gustave Caillebotte: The Painter's Eye

Gustave Caillebotte, The Floor Scrapers, 1875, oil on canvas, Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Gift of Caillebotte's heirs through the intermediary of Auguste Renoir, 1894. © RMN-Grand Palais/Art Resource, NY

Gustave Caillebotte, The Pont de l’Europe, 1876, oil on canvas, Association des Amis du Petit Palais, Geneva. Erich Lessing/Art Resource, NY

Gustave Caillebotte, On the Pont de l’Europe, 1876–1877, oil on canvas, Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth

Gustave Caillebotte, Paris Street, Rainy Day, 1877, oil on canvas, The Art Institute of Chicago, Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection. Photography © The Art Institute of Chicago

Gustave Caillebotte, At a Café, 1880, oil on canvas, Musée d'Orsay, Paris, On deposit at Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen. © RMN-Grand Palais/Art Resource, NY

Gustave Caillebotte, The Boulevard Seen from Above, 1880, oil on canvas, Private Collection. © Comité Caillebotte, Paris

Gustave Caillebotte, Portrait of a Man, 1880, oil on canvas, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Muriel Butkin. Photography © The Cleveland Museum of Art

Gustave Caillebotte, Interior, Woman at the Window, 1880, oil on canvas, Private Collection. © Comité Caillebotte, Paris

Gustave Caillebotte, Nude on a Couch, 1880, oil on canvas, Lent by The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, The John R. Van Derlip Fund

Gustave Caillebotte, Man at His Bath, 1884, oil on canvas, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Museum purchase with funds by exchange from an Anonymous gift, Bequest of William A. Coolidge, Juliana Cheney Edwards Collection, and from the Charles H. Bayley Picture and Painting Fund, Edward Jackson Holmes Fund, Fanny P. Mason Fund in memory of Alice Thevin, Arthur Gordon Tompkins Fund, Gift of Mrs. Samuel Parkman Oliver-Eliza R. Oliver Fund, Sophie F. Friedman Fund, Robert M. Rosenberg Family Fund, and funds donated in honor of George T. M. Shackelford, Chair, Art of Europe, and Arthur K. Solomon Curator of Modern Art, 1996–2011. Photograph © 2015 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Gustave Caillebotte, Portrait of Monsieur R., 1877, oil on canvas, Private Collection

Gustave Caillebotte, A Boating Party, 1877–1878, oil on canvas, Private Collection. © Comité Caillebotte, Paris

Gustave Caillebotte, Fruit Displayed on a Stand, c. 1881–1882, oil on canvas, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Fanny P. Mason Fund in memory of Alice Thevin. Photograph © 2015 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Gustave Caillebotte, Calf's Head and Ox Tongue, c. 1882, oil on canvas, The Art Institute of Chicago, Major Acquisitions Centennial Endowment. Photography © The Art Institute of Chicago

Gustave Caillebotte, The Fields, a Plain in Gennevilliers, Study in Yellow and Green, 1884, oil on canvas, Collection of Frederic C. Hamilton, Bequest to the Denver Art Museum. Photograph courtesy of the Denver Art Museum