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Study of a Man with Hands in His Pockets

1893

Gustave Caillebotte

(French, 1848–1894)
Culture
France, 19th century
Medium
black chalk on Arches modern laid paper
Measurements
Sheet: 47.6 x 31.5 cm (18 3/4 x 12 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
John L. Severance Fund 2020.260
Catalogue raisonné
Chardeau 112
Public Domain
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Not on view
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Did You Know?

Caillebotte and the subject of this drawing, his friend Eugène Lamy, shared a love of yachting and the artist’s suburban home was located near a popular club in Argenteuil.

Description

Gustave Caillebotte is known for a realist style that broke from the heavy, visible brushstrokes of his contemporaries. This drawing is a study for the figure of Eugène Lamy, a close friend of the artist with whom he is seen in conversation in the 1893 painting Bank of the Seine at Petit Gennevilliers, Winter (private collection). Using sketchy, diagonal marks, Caillebotte recorded light and shadow on Lamy’s jacket, aligning with the Impressionists’ interest in capturing natural effects and fleeting moments from everyday life.
A vertically oriented black chalk drawing on beige paper depicts the back of a man with light skin tone, hands in his pockets, turned slightly to our right to barely show the side of his bearded face. He wears a jacket, trousers, and a bowler hat, a black outline defining his contour from which sketchy lines hazily escape. Across the man's back, sketchy horizontal and diagonal lines streak, darkest where the jacket transitions to trousers.

Study of a Man with Hands in His Pockets

1893

Gustave Caillebotte

(French, 1848–1894)
France, 19th century

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