Dahlias Garden at Petit Gennevilleirs is a painting by Gustave Caillebotte which was uploaded on March 24th, 2015.
Dahlias Garden at Petit Gennevilleirs
Gustave Caillebotte (French: 19 August 1848 - 21 February 1894) was a French painter, member and patron of the group of artists known as... more
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Dahlias Garden at Petit Gennevilleirs
Artist
Gustave Caillebotte
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Painting
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Gustave Caillebotte (French: 19 August 1848 - 21 February 1894) was a French painter, member and patron of the group of artists known as Impressionists, though he painted in a much more realistic manner than many other artists in the group. Caillebotte was noted for his early interest in photography as an art form.
Gustave Caillebotte was born to an upper-class Parisian family living in the rue du Faubourg-Saint-Denis. His father, Martial Caillebotte (1799 - 1874), was the inheritor of the family's military textile business and was also a judge at the Seine department's Tribunal de Commerce. Caillebotte's father was twice widowed before marrying Caillebotte's mother, Celeste Daufresne (1819 - 1878), who had two more sons after Gustave, Rene (1851 - 1876) and Martial (1853 - 1910). Caillebotte was born at home on rue du Faubourg-Saint-Denis in Paris, and lived there until 1866 when his father had a home built on rue de Miromesnil. Beginning in 1860, the Caillebotte family began spending many of their summers in Yerres, a town on the Yerres River about 12 miles (20 km) south of Paris, where Martial Caillebotte, Sr. had purchased a large property. It was around this time that Caillebotte probably began to draw and paint.
Caillebotte earned a law degree in 1868 and a licence to practise law in 1870. He was also an engineer. Shortly afterwards, he was drafted to fight in the Franco-Prussian war, and served from July 1870 to March 1871 in the Garde Nationale Mobile de la Seine
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