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Sketchbook
Inscriptions
Signed and inscribed inside front cover, upper left corner: “du / p. 75 (?) G. Caillebotte”
Provenance
Sold to Ellen Josefowitz, Lausanne, Switzerland, by 1991; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2011.
Exhibition history
Paris, Brame et Lorenceau, "Gustave Caillebotte, 1848–1894: Dessins, pastels et peintures," Oct. 15–Nov. 27, 1998, cat. 66 (ill.). Lausanne, Fondation de l’Hermitage, "Caillebotte: Au coeur de l’impressionisme," June 24–Oct. 23, 2005, cat. 59 (ill). Art Institute of Chicago, "Master Drawings Unveiled: 25 Years of Major Acquisitions," August 27, 2016–January 29, 2017, no cat.
Publications
Christopher Lloyd, “An Unknown Sketchbook by Gustave Caillebotte,” Master Drawings XXVI:2 (Summer 1988), pp. 107–118, figs. 1, 19, pls. 1–25. “Cat. 4: Sketchbook,” in Caillebotte Paintings and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago, ed. Gloria Groom and Genevieve Westerby (Art Institute of Chicago, 2015). https://publications.artic.edu/caillebotte/reader/paintingsanddrawings/section/574/574_anchor
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Gustave Caillebotte / French, 1848–1894
- Date
- June 1883–September 1887
- Medium
- Sketchbook containing 40 drawings: 30 in graphite, 7 in watercolor over graphite, and 3 in graphite and brush and gray wash, on 40 sheets of cream wove paper bound in brown cloth
- Dimensions
- Sheets: 11.4 × 19.5 cm (4 1/2 × 7 11/16 in.); Sketchbook: 12.5 × 20.3 × 1.5 cm (4 15/16 × 8 × 5/8 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- sketchbook
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Margaret Day Blake Fund
- Accession no.
- 2011.85
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