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Study of a Man with Hands in His Pockets
About the Artwork
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
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
Exhibition history
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-June 11, 2023).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Gustave Caillebotte (French, 1848–1894)
- Date
- 1893
- Medium
- black chalk on Arches modern laid paper
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 47.6 x 31.5 cm (18 3/4 x 12 3/8 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawing
- Department
- Drawings
- Credit line
- John L. Severance Fund
- Accession no.
- 2020.260
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-00011034
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