Tag: Gustave Caillebotte The Floor Scrapers (1875)

• How Caillebotte saved Impressionism

  

  The Impressionists were struggling. Their paintings weren’t selling, and Pissarro was fed up with Monet and Renoir. He was ready to quit the group when a mysterious letter arrived.

  Diane Tucker

  2024-03-03

  Art history stories, Everyday Life, French Impressionism, Innovation in Art, The Shy Museumgoer

  Arts writer Diane Tucker, Caillebotte’s bequeath to Musée d’Orsay, Caillebotte Paris Street; Rainy Day (1877), Gustave Caillebotte, Gustave Caillebotte The Floor Scrapers (1875), Renoir Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette, Third Impressionist Exhibition, Urban Impressionism