Walk: Union Square dentist and errands
Distance: 5 miles
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| Gustave Caillebotte, Self Portrait, 1888-89, oil on canvas |
Without Gustave Caillebotte there would not be the wonderful Museum D'Orsay with its vast collection of superior Impressionist paintings. Nor, likely, would some of those paintings have been produced if not for Caillebotte's patronage of the artist. A painter himself, but even more a collector, patron, organizer and backer of several of the now landmark Impressionist exhibitions, he used his considerable wealth and diplomatic skills to support the Impressionists' efforts and create a large collection of Impressionist works. At the age of only 28 he wrote a will leaving this collection - now the backbone of the Musee D'Orsay collection - to the French state. (Who almost squandered it, but that is another story. Almost; it did keep a sizeable number of Caillebotte's gifted works).
To remind you, here are a few of Ciwt's (and the world's) favorite Caillebotte's:
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| The Floor Scrapers, 1875, oil on canvas |
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| Paris Street in Rainy Weather, 1877, oil on canvas |
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| Skiffs, 1877, oil on canvas |
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