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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: 222 Impressionism & Post-Impressionism

Did You Know?

In addition to his career as an artist, Caillebotte was an award-winning sailor and designed his own racing sailboats.

Description

Gustave Caillebotte painted this dramatic view of the blue-green sea, illuminated by a cloud-dappled sky, from one of the cliffs of Trouville, a popular resort town on the Normandy coast in northern France. The brick villas in the foreground, just outside the center of the town, offered homeowners a private shoreline retreat. During the early 1880s, Caillebotte spent several summers on the Normandy coast where he painted, participated in sailing regattas, and visited friends.
  • by 1894
    Paul Hugot, Paris, France
    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
    ?–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)
    by 1996
    Paul and Leslie Ridley-Tree, Santa Barabara, CA
    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.
  • 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
    Morton, Mary. "Gustave Caillebotte." In The Keithley Collection at the Cleveland Museum of Art, edited by Heather Lemonedes Brown, 64-67. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2022. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 66-67; Mentioned: p. 258-259
    Christie, Manson & Woods. Masterpieces from the Collection of Sam Josefowitz: A Lifetime of Discovery and Scholarship. London: Christie's, 2023. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 120
  • Impressionism to Modernism: The Keithley Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 11, 2022-January 8, 2023).
    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).
    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).
    The European Fine Art Fair. Montgomery Gallery, Maasstricht, Netherlands (1994).
    XVieme Biennale international des antiquaries. Montgomery Gallery, Paris, France (1992).
    Exposition retrospective de Gustave Caillebotte. Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris, France (1894).
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