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Villas at Trouville

1884

Gustave Caillebotte

(French, 1848–1894)

France, 19th century

Oil on canvas

Unframed: 66 x 81.3 cm (26 x 32 in.)

Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift 2020.105

Location

not on view

Fun Fact

Outside of painting, Caillebotte was also an avid stamp collector, yacht builder, orchid gardener, and textile designer.

Description

Gustave Caillebotte painted this view of villas at Trouville, a small town on the Normandy coast, using the distinctive plunging perspectives he had developed in his Parisian street scenes. Varying degrees of paint thickness are skillfully employed to evoke a feeling of immense space and distance. The thicker strokes in the foreground contrast with the delicate, wispy strokes in the sea and the pools of sunlight reflected on the distant water.

Inscriptions

Inscription

Signed (posthumously by Martial Caillebotte according to Marie Berhaut) lower right: G. Caillebotte [Distal, 1995]

Provenance
by 1894
Paul Hugot, Paris, France 1
J. Combes, Paris, France
about 1957–by 1972
Alexandre Tarnopol [1889–1983], New York, NY
by 1972
passed to his brother, Grégoire Tarnopol [1891–1979], New York, NY by 1972 2
?–1989
Suzanne Delarbre, New York, NY (sold: Christie's, New York, NY November, 15, 1989, lot 364)
by 1990–1995
(Montgomery Gallery, San Francisco, CA, sold to Private Collection) 3
by 1996
Paul and Leslie Ridley-Tree, Santa Barabara, CA 4
2008
(Sotheby's, New York, NY, November 4, 2008, lot 58, sold to Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley)
2008–2020
Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley, Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art
2020–
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Provenance Footnotes

1 This painting was included in the “Exposition retrospective d’oeuvres de Gustave Caillebotte,” Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris, 1894, cat. no. 36, as “Bord de mer à Villers (1881)”. Alternatively, Marie Berhaut, La Vie et l'Oeuvre de Gustave Caillebotte (Paris, 1951), p. 34, identifies the painting as cat. no. 5, “Trouville (1882)”. Both were in the collection of Paul Hugot.
2 According to Marie Berhaut, Caillebotte, sa Vie et son Oeuvre: Catalogue Raisonné des Peintures et Pastels (Paris, France: La Bibliothèque des Arts, 1978), p. 189, cat. no. 272, ill.
3 According to the 2008 Sotheby’s, New York sale catalogue, lot 58.
4 According to Anne Distel, Gustave Caillebotte: The Unknown Impressionist (London: Royal Academy of Arts, in association with Ludion Press, Ghent, 1996), pp. 168-169, cat. no. 40, ill.
Citations
Brown, Heather Lemonedes. “Impressionism to Modernism: The Keithley Collection.” Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine 62, no. 2 (2022): 20-21. Reproduced: P. 21; Mentioned: P. 20.
Galerie Durand-Ruel. Exposition rétrospective d'œuvres de G. Caillebotte. Paris: Galerie Durand-Ruel, 1894. Mentioned: P. 4, no. 36
Berhaut, Marie, and Gustave Caillebotte. Caillebotte: sa vie et son oeuvre : catalogue raisonné des peintures et pastels. Paris, France: La Bibliothèque des Arts, 1978. Reproduced: p. 173, no. 271
Berhaut, Marie, and Sophie Pietri. Gustave Caillebotte: Catalogue Raisonné des Peintures et Pastels. Paris: Wildenstein Institute, 1994. Mentioned and Reproduced: P. 189, no. 309
The European Fine Art Fair, Maastricht: [Handbook]. 1994. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 106, no. 161
Distel, Anne. Gustave Caillebotte, Urban Impressionist. Paris, France: Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 1995. Mentioned and Reproduced: P. 254-255, 257, 264-265, no. 101
Distel, Anne. Gustave Caillebotte: The Unknown Impressionist. London, United Kingdom: Royal Academy of Arts, in association with Ludion Press, Ghent, 1996. Mentioned and Reproduced: P. 168-168, no. 40
Zafran, Eric M. Santa Barbara Collects: Impressions of France. Santa Barbara, CA: Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1998. Mentioned and Reproduced: P. 36, no. 12
Exhibition history

Exposition retrospective de Gustave Caillebotte. Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris, France (1894).

XVieme Biennale international des antiquaries. Montgomery Gallery, Paris, France (1992).

The European Fine Art Fair. Montgomery Gallery, Maasstricht, Netherlands (1994).

Gustave Caillebotte: Urban Impressionist. Grand Palais, Paris, France (September 16, 1994–January 9, 1995); Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (February 18–May 28, 1995); Los Angeles Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (June 22–September 10, 1995).

Gustave Caillebotte: The Unknown Impressionist. Royal Academy of Arts, London, United Kingdom (March 28–June 23, 2006).

Santa Barbara Collects: Impressions of France. Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA (1998).

Impressionism to Modernism: The Keithley Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 11, 2022-January 8, 2023).

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