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More than any other French Impressionist, painter Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1894) observed and depicted the many men in his life, including his brothers and friends, employees, and the workers and bourgeois in his Parisian neighborhood. Male subjects feature prominently in some of his best-known works, such as The Floor Scrapers, Man at His Bath, Young Man at His Window, Boating Party, and Paris Street, Rainy Day. The originality of his paintings of men are fully explored for the first time in this catalogue, published to accompany a major international exhibition co-organized by the J. Paul Getty Museum, Musee d'Orsay, and Art Institute of Chicago.Alongside paintings, drawings, and photographs, as well as an appendix featuring maps and new biographical research that sheds light on Caillebotte's social network, this volume includes historically grounded thematic essays by curators and leading scholars. By exploring the complex and varied facets of Caillebotte's identity-as son, brother, soldier, bachelor, amateur, sportsman, and so on-these essays pose questions of identity, leaving space for ambiguous and fluid expressions of gender and masculinity-for both Caillebotte and the larger late nineteenth-century French world.Musee d'OrsayOctober 8, 2024-January 19, 2025J. Paul Getty MuseumGetty CenterMarch 25-May 25, 2025Art Institute of ChicagoTBD, 2025Accompanying a major international loan exhibition, GustaveCaillebotte: Painting Men offers a fascinating array of essays that explorecomplex questions of masculinity and virility in the art of this stillenigmatic painter. The book features the wisdom of many seasoned scholars ofImpressionism, but it is also noteworthy for the contributions of a newgeneration of authors, whose fresh eyes and new voices help bring the artist'sworld vividly to life. - George T.M. Shackelford, Deputy Director, Kimbell ArtMuseum "The essays inside this beautifully illustrated catalogueoffer groundbreaking insights into a dominant, if largely ignored, theme inCaillebotte's work. A major contribution to the existing scholarship onthe artist, this book will be a standard reference for years to come."-MarninYoung, author of Realism in the Age of Impressionism: Painting and thePolitics of TimeGustave Caillebotte remains the most mysterious core member of theImpressionist movement. This catalogue includes the latest scholarship on theartist by contemporary experts in the field—museum and academic art historiansbased in France and the United States—bringing fresh readings to Caillebotte’sknown work as well as investigations of several paintings only recently arrivedin the public sphere. It is spectacularly illustrated with the best of theartist’s oeuvre, definitively establishing the striking singularity ofCaillebotte’s artistic achievement. —Mary Morton, Curator of French Paintings,National Gallery of Art

Drawings, pastels, prints and watercolors: Renoir's works on paper provide crucial insight into his instantly recognizable Impressionist paintingsPublished with RMN-Grand Palais, Musée d'Orsay, and Morgan Library & Museum.The paintings of Pierre-Auguste Renoir have become icons of Impressionism. Although his works on paper are less widely known, drawing remained central to his artistic practice even as his interests and ambitions changed over the course of a long career. This book explores the ways in which Renoir used paper to test ideas, plan compositions and interpret both landscape and the human figure.Renoir Drawings features more than 110 drawings, pastels, watercolors, prints and a small selection of paintings, enabling readers to engage with Renoir's creative process while offering insights into his artistic methods over five decades.Thematic sections cover the full span of the artist's career, ranging from academic studies he made as a student, to on-the-spot impressions of contemporary urban and rural life, to finished, formal portraits, to intimate sketches of friends and family completed late in life. In-depth case studies of favored themes and preparatory work for landmark canvases further illuminate Renoir's drawing practice.Together with Claude Monet, Edgar Degas and Camille Pissarro, Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841–1919) was a founder of the style that became known as Impressionism, and one of its most prolific exponents. He was described by Herbert Read as "the final representative of a tradition which runs directly from Rubens to Watteau."

A celebration of Renoir’s imagery of love in all its guises, from seduction and courtship to friendship, camaraderie and parenthood. More than any of his contemporaries, Renoir was committed to chronicling love and friendship. Whether painting Parisian streetcorners or sun-dappled woodlands, he understood that emotion could be as fleeting and blinding as his other great and transitory subject, sunlight itself. Focusing on the crucial period of the artist’s career from the mid-1860s to the mid-1880s, this catalogue traces the evolution of Renoir’s imagery of love, from affection, flirtation and seduction to camaraderie and parenthood. Such themes are explored in tender and personal works as well as ambitious multi-figure compositions, including Dance at the Moulin de la Galette and The Umbrellas. Accompanying the most significant exhibition of the French Impressionist’s work in the UK for 20 years, this publication addresses the broad theme of Renoir and love through a series of thematic essays, interspersed with focused entries on key artworks. Exhibition ScheduleMusée d’Orsay, Paris (17 March – 19 July 2026)The National Gallery, London (3 October 2026 – 31 January 2027) The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (20 February – 13 June 2027)Published by National Gallery Global Ltd/Distributed by Yale University Press