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Villas at Trouville
About the Artwork
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.
Inscriptions
Signed (posthumously by Martial Caillebotte according to Marie Berhaut) lower right: G. Caillebotte [Distal, 1995]
Provenance
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
Exhibition history
Impressionism to Modernism: The Keithley Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 11, 2022-January 8, 2023).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Gustave Caillebotte (French, 1848–1894)
- Date
- 1884
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- Unframed: 66 x 81.3 cm (26 x 32 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- Painting
- Department
- Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift
- Accession no.
- 2020.105
More by Gustave Caillebotte in museum collections
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00009477
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