Food for the Soul: Gustave Caillebotte: Painting Men

Gustave Caillebotte. Self-Portrait, c.1892. Oil on canvas. Musée d’Orsay, Paris. Acquired with funds from an anonymous Canadian donation, 1971. Photo: Grand Palais RMN (Musée d’Orsay) / Martine Beck. Coppola EX.2025.2.37. Photo: Courtesy of The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout

Personally, I love themed art exhibitions because I always learn from them. I learn about pictures that I have never before seen or sometimes gain an understanding of an artist’s evolution of style. Many painters have favorite motifs (Cezanne’s apples, van Gogh’s olive trees) or subjects (Renoir’s nudes, Ribera’s old men), and a themed exhibition can highlight such preferences. In the case of the French Impressionist Gustave Caillebotte (my favorite artist), this motif was the world of men.

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