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Study of a Man with Hands in His Pockets

1893

Gustave Caillebotte

(French, 1848–1894)

France, 19th century

Black chalk on Arches modern laid paper

Sheet: 47.6 x 31.5 cm (18 3/4 x 12 3/8 in.)

John L. Severance Fund 2020.260

Catalogue raisonné: Chardeau 112

Location

101B Prints & Drawings

Fun Fact

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.

Inscriptions

Inscription

Stamped, at lower right, in dark purple ink: G. Caillebotte; watermark, at top margin: MBM (for Arches MBM)

Provenance
1893-1894
Studio of the artist [1848–1894]
1894-1989
by descent to his family
1989
(Brame & Lorenceau, Paris, sold to the Josefowitz Collection, Lausanne)
1989-2020
(Josefowitz Collection, Lausanne, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH)
2020-
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Citations
Berhaut, Marie. Gustave Caillebotte, sa vie et son œuvre: Catalogue raisonné des peintures et pastels. Paris: La Bibliothèque des arts, 1978. Mentioned: p. 232
Chardeau, Jean. Les Dessins de Caillebotte. Paris: Hermé, 1989. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 112.
Gustave Caillebotte, 1848–1894: Dessins, études, peintures. Exh. cat. Paris: Brame & Loreanceau, 1989. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 28, no. H.
Berhaut, Marie. Gustave Caillebotte: Catalogue raisonné des peintures et pastels. Rev. ed. Paris: Wildenstein Institute, 1994. Mentioned: p. 248
Gustave Caillebotte, 1848–1894: Dessins, pastels et peintures. Exh. cat. Paris: Brame & Lorenceau, 1998. Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 126-27, no. 75.
Gustave Caillebotte: Impressionist in Modern Paris. Exh. cat. Tokyo: Bridgestone Museum of Art, 2013. Mentioned: p. 266, no. 57; Reproduced: p. 167.
Bocquillon, Marina Ferretti. Caillebotte, peintre et jardinier. Exh. cat. Giverny: Musée des impressionismes, 2016. Mentioned: pp. 52, 148, no. 2; Reproduced: p. 52.
Exhibition history

Gustave Caillebotte, 1848–1894: Dessins, études, peintures. Brame & Lorenceau, Paris (February 28–March 24, 1989).

Gustave Caillebotte, 1848–1894: Dessins, pastels et peintures. Brame & Lorenceau, Paris (October 15–November 27, 1998).

Gustave Caillebotte: Impressionist in Modern Paris. Bridgestone Museum of Art, Tokyo (October 10–December 29, 2013).

Caillebotte, peintre et jardinier. Musée des impressionnismes, Giverny (March 25–July 3, 2016); Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid (July 19–October 30, 2016).

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

Nineteenth-Century French Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 20-April 30, 2023).

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