The wealthiest member of the Impressionist circle, Caillebotte helped finance the group’s exhibitions and actively collected the work of his friends in the 1870s and early 1880s. By the late 1880s, however, his attention had shifted to designs for the gardens and boats he kept at a country house in Gennevilliers, twenty miles down the Seine from central Paris. The yellow boat depicted here was likely one of the artist’s own design, and may show Caillebotte’s friend and fellow sailor, Eugène Lamy, at the helm. The composition, abandoned unfinished in 1891, depicts a stretch of the river not far from the painter's house.
Details
- Artist Name: Gustave Caillebotte (French, 1848-1894)
- Title: The Yellow Boat
- Date: 1891
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 28-3/4 x 36-3/8 in. (73 x 92.5 cm)
- Credit Line: The Norton Simon Foundation
- Accession Number: F.1985.2.1.P
- Copyright: © The Norton Simon Foundation
Object Information
Mme. Albert Chardeau, née Suzanne Caillebotte, in 1968.
Pauline K. Cave (sale, New York, Sotheby’s, 16 November 1984, lot 14, ill., to);
The Norton Simon Foundation.
Gustave Caillebotte
- Wildenstein & Co. (New York, N.Y.), 1968 to
Impressionists on the Water
- Peabody Essex Museum, 2013-11-09 to 2014-02-16
Renoir and Friends: Luncheon of the Boating Party
- The Phillips Collection, 2017-10-07 to 2018-01-08
The Lure of the Water: Impressionists at the Seashore
- Norton Simon Museum, 1993-07-01 to 1993-10-10
Images of the Landscape, Barbizon and Impressionist Paintings from the Permanent Collection
- Norton Simon Museum, 1987-07-02 to 1989-10-29
- Wildenstein and Co., Gustave Caillebotte, no. 48, as 1883
- Berhaut, Marie, Caillebotte: Sa vie et son oeuvre, 1978, no. 395
- Brettell, Richard R. and Stephen F. Eisenman, Nineteenth-Century Art in the Norton Simon Museum, volume 1, 2006,
- Campbell, Sara, Collector Without Walls: Norton Simon and His Hunt for the Best, 2010, cat. 1715 p. 439
- Eliza Rathbone, Renoir and Friends: Luncheon of the Boating Party, 2017, Cat. 35 p. 83, p. 78 (ill.)
- Marchesseau, Daniel, Gustave Caillebotte: Impressionniste et moderne, 2020, fig. Le Bateau jaune p. 266 (ill.)
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