Gustave Caillebotte (August 19, 1848 – February 21, 1894), was a French painter, patron of the impressionist art movement, and engineer.

Caillebotte inherited a sizable fortune, including the estate inside Yerres, after his father's demise inside 1874, which funded his patronage of the arts. Besides, around 1874 he attended the École des Beaux-Arts where he met impressionist painters Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, and Pierre Auguste Renoir.

His painting style appears to belong to the school of realism, although he helped organize the number 1 impressionistic exhibition & enthusiastically gathered impressionist works.

Caillebotte's painting themes were catholic. For instance, he painted portraits and interior scenes, urban life, still lifes, and landscapes and seascapes. He typically chose an overhead vantage point for his compositions & depicted elegantly dressed numbers strolling by owning a unexpressive look of sleep walkers (''Boulevarfive hundred Vu d'nut Haut 1880). His metropolitan scenes led editor Anne Distel to title the book all about him, Gustave Caillebotte: Urban Impressionist.''

For several years, Caillebotte's reputation as a painter was superseded by his reputation as a supporter of the arts. Still, lxx years fallowing his dying, art historiographer began reevaluating his artistic contributions.

Merely ii years prior to he died, he married Emilie Schlauch.

Gustave Caillebotte died inside 1894 of pulmonary congestion and was interred in the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, France.

Inside his might, Caillebotte donated the big collection to the French government. This collection involved sixty-eight paintings by various creative person: Camille Pissarro (nineteen), Claude Monet (fourteen), Pierre-Auguste Renoir (ten), Alfred Sisley (nine), Edgar Degas (seven), Paul Cézanne (five), & Édouard Manet (four).

At a instance of Caillebotte's dying, a Impressionists were however largely condemned per art establishment within France, which was dominated by Academic art and specifically the Académie des beaux-arts. Because of this, Caillebotte realised that a ethnic treasures around his collection would probably disappear into "attics" & "provincial museums". He so stipulated that it must become displayed in the Luxembourg Palace (devoted to the work of residing creative person), so in the Louvre.

Regrettably, a French government would non agree to these terms. Around February 1896, they eventually negotiated terms by using Renoir, world health organization was a may's executor, under which it took thirty-eight of the paintings to the Luxembourg. A unexpended twenty-29 paintings (a single wwhen taken by Renoir inside payment for his services as executor) were offered to the French government twice extra, inside 1904 and 1908, and were each days refused. While the food and drug administration eventually attempted to claim the children inside 1928, the legacy was repudiated per widow woman of Caillebotte's boy. Virtually all of the left works were purchased by Albert C. Barnes, and are now held by the Barnes Foundation of Philadelphia.

Forty of Caillebotte's have works come at present held per Musee d'Orsay. His ''Fifty'Homme au balcon, avenue Haussmann'', painted around 1880, sold for more than $14.3 million within 2000.