Gustave Caillebotte, in his later work, has…
1894 CE
His originality lies in his attempt to combine the careful drawing and modeling and exact tonal values advocated by the Académie with the vivid colors, bold perspectives, keen sense of natural light, and modern subject matter of the Impressionists.
He dies at forty-five, leaving to the state his collection of sixty-five Impressionist works.
The highly successful Jean-Léon Gérome, now seventy, continues to exert great influence in the Paris art world.
Still exceedingly hostile to the Impressionists, he urges the French government to refuse Caillebotte's gift.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, appointed as executor of Caillebotte's will, oversees the bequest, which the state accepts only reluctantly.
Most of Caillebotte's own paintings remain in the hands of his family.
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