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CAILLEBOTTE

by kendrive ^Pro @ 2009-06-28 – 06:57:40

Gustave Caillebotte was a French Impressionist painter - though he painted in a much more realistic manner than many other artists in the group. He was noted for his early interest in photography as an art-form.

He was born in 1848 in a very rich family which made its fortune in textiles industry then in real estate business as Baron Haussmann was rebuilding Paris.

Engineer by profession, but also former student of the Fine Arts School of Paris where he studied with Léon Bonnat, he met Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, and Pierre Auguste Renoir in 1874 and helped them organize their 1st group exhibition in Paris.

In 1873 he inherited the great fortune of his father and was financially independent for the rest of his life.

He died in 1894, aged 45, from 'an attack of apoplexy'.

Today's painting continues my theme of 'rowers'. There are many reproductions and copies, but this is the original work.

Forty of Caillebotte's paintings are now held by the Musée d'Orsay. His Man on a Balcony, Boulevard Haussmann (Homme au balcon, boulevard Haussmann) (1880), sold for more than $14.3 million in 2000

Rower in a top hat
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- jenray ^Pro
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- 2009-06-28 @ 11:39:50
Good one, Colin...very nicely executed....water is excellent and the overall feeling of a not too hot summer's day is there...am I wrong but is that a black lady in the other boat or it just might be a face in dark shade? GBHs...XXX
- - kendrive ^Pro
  - 2009-06-28 @ 11:42:41
  Yes, it could be a 'Southern' lady and her beau.
  - - jenray ^Pro
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    - 2009-06-28 @ 11:44:47
    what causes apoplexy? Very young to die sadly...GBHs...XXX
    - - kendrive ^Pro
      - 2009-06-28 @ 12:06:41
      Apoplexy is an out-dated medical term, which can be used to mean 'bleeding'. It can be used non-medically to mean a state of extreme rage or excitement. The word derives from the Greek word for 'seizure', apoplēxia (ἀποπληξία), in the sense of being struck down.
      
      Historically, the word "apoplexy" was also used to describe any sudden death that began with a sudden loss of consciousness, especially one where the victim died within a matter of seconds after losing consciousness.
      
      Those reading historical documents should take into consideration the possibility that the word "apoplexy" may be used to describe the symptom of sudden loss of consciousness immediately preceding death and not an actual verified disease process.
      
      Sudden cardiac deaths, ruptured cerebral aneurysms, certain ruptured aortic aneurysms, and even heart attacks may have been described as apoplexy in the past.
      
      (From Wikipedia)
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- jollyweez
- 2009-06-28 @ 19:37:51
That is really interesting above, Colin. I always thought it was a sudden death from dangerously high blood pressure during excitement of some kind.
I love the painting Perhaps it was supposed to depict a small river in the Southern States of USA. The French visited frequently and got along splendidly with them. They gave us the Statue of LIberty, as you well know.
Actually, many African Americans also went to France to live for they were quite popular with the French. Especially that singer/dancer whose I cannot recall at this 'senior moment!'
- - kendrive ^Pro
  - 2009-06-28 @ 21:38:54
  Yes - dying in a fit of outrage. "Don't darken my doors again!" (Father to profligate son).
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- mojacar
- 2009-06-29 @ 23:34:41
Charlotte are you taking about Josephine Baker? Seen some old black and white film of her.
- - kendrive ^Pro
  - 2009-06-30 @ 22:11:54
  You could be right.
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