The term “French Impressionism” conjures a hetero world of frilly images — from Degas’s dancers, to Monet’s women with parasols, to Renoir’s female bathers. This overly simplistic story has been ...

When Gustave Caillebotte was a child in Paris in the mid-1800s, he had no real intentions of becoming a painter. He earned a law degree in 1868 and began his practice two years later. The art world ...

Five little-known works by the Impressionist painter Gustave Caillebotte, which belonged to the artist’s butler, are now on view at the Musée d’Orsay. They are a remarkable gift made by the great ...

France has acquired a stunning Impressionist masterpiece for its national collection of art treasures, with a donation from luxury goods giant LVMH paying nearly $47 million for "Boating Party" by ...

reporting from WASHINGTON — In the late 19th century, everyone looked on Gustave Caillebotte as a leading painter of the Impressionists. He took part in five of the eight exhibitions that the ...

Earlier this week, France acquired A Boating Party (1877) by impressionist artist Gustave Caillebotte with the help of $47 million in funding from luxury holdings company, LVMH. The painting will now ...

If you're planning to become an artist, here's one nice way to do it: be independently wealthy, easily pay your bills without needing to sell your own work, buy up the paintings of your marvelously ...

To a greater extent than almost any of his contemporaries, Gustave Caillebotte had the gift of stillness. This might seem an odd claim to make about an impressionist, one member of that band of ...

Reporting from FORT WORTH — I’ve tried with Gustave Caillebotte. Really, I have. Surely any artist who could produce as sensational a painting as “Paris Street; Rainy Day” is major. The monumental ...

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French Impressionism has a remarkable and, it seems, endlessly renewable currency in contemporary museum culture. The recent show of Van Gogh nocturnes at MoMA spawned an agitated, gelatinous daily ...