Gustave Caillebotte: Painting Men

French painter Gustave Caillebotte’s interest in male subjects sharply distinguishes him from his Impressionist peers. 

He very often observed and depicted the men in his life—including his brothers, bachelor friends, fellow sportsmen, and the workers and bourgeois of his neighborhood—and did so in bracingly original paintings that often subverted artistic and gender norms. 

His distinctive vision of modern masculinity is considered here for the first time in a major international loan exhibition.

Co-organized with the Musée d’Orsay, Paris and the Art Institute of Chicago.

Credit: Overview from museum website

Image credit: Gustave Caillebotte, Les raboteurs de parquet, 1875, Musée d'Orsay, Don, 1984 © Musée d’Orsay, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Patrice Schmidt