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Музей Израиля в Иерусалиме, 8 марта 2025 г.
Непредвиденная встреча с Гюставом Кайботтом. Этой работы мы до сих пор не видели (я, кажется, даже не знал о ее существовании).

Gustave Caillebotte, French, 1848-1894
Portrait of Zoé Caillebotte, 1877

Oil on canvas, 81 x 100 cm
Signed G. Caillebotte and dated 1877 (lower left)

Collection of the Laufer Family

Photo: March 08, 2025
Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Special Display Gustave Caillebotte (150 Years of Impressionism)

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The son of a wealthy military textile merchant, Gustave Caillebotte graduated from law school just days after the outbreak of the 1870 Franco-Prussian War. The French debacle, which resulted in the defeat of the Second Empire , was followed by the bloody suppression of the Commune (the revolt of the working class in Paris) - events that proved a turning point in Caillebotte's life, influencing his decision to abandon law and turn to the study of art.

Caillebotte's work exhibits a predilection for realism, plein-air painting, and striking perspectives inspired by Japanese prints and the innovative technology of photography. When the Impressionists mounted their first exhibition in 1874, Caillebotte was taken by their idea of "optical truth" - particularly Degas' realistic depictions and unusual perspectives. The rejection of Caillebotte's work by the 1875 Salon Exhibition Committee triggered his decision to join Monet, Renoir, and the other Impressionists, and he made his debut one year later in the second Impressionist exhibition. For the next eight years Caillebotte was intensely involved with the Impressionist cause, participating in exhibitions as well as funding them and supporting fellow artists as an art patron and collector. He developed his own style, which was congruent with Impressionist tenets yet remained distinctively personal, producing domestic and familial interiors, portrayals of Paris's streets and high society, and powerful images of the working class.

Portrait of Zoé Caillebotte depicts the artist's nine-year-old cousin in the games and music room of Maison Caillebotte, the family's country house in Yerres, Essonne, with the attentive gaze and blushing self-consciousness of a pre-adolescent, hands clasped on her white apron and feet crossed nervously. Opulent Braquenié fabrics with floral motifs in madder and blue tones, typical of French bourgeois interiors, cover the walls and furniture. The sofa and footstool create an angular geometry. and the composition is truncated mid-fireplace, creating an asymmetry influenced by photography and Japanese art.

Caillebotte never needed to sell his work, and his protracted absence from the public eye led to his being largely forgotten. His oeuvre was only rediscovered in the 1970s,when a number of exhibitions focusing on Impressionism and on Caillebotte restored him to his rightful position as one of the movement's pioneering spirits.

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Тоже не видел эту работу, спасибо! Летом в Чикаго будет большая выставка Кайботта, а я заценил его прошлым летом в музее Барберине (Потсдам). Как-нибудь выложу.