Study of a Man with Hands in His Pockets
1893
Gustave Caillebotte
Gustave Caillebotte (French, 1848–1894)
Drawings
Study of a Man with Hands in His Pockets, 1893. Gustave Caillebotte (French, 1848–1894). Black chalk on Arches modern laid paper; sheet: 47.6 x 31.5 cm (18 3/4 x 12 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 2020.260 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. Caillebotte and the subject of this drawing, his friend Eugène Lamy, shared a love of yachting and the artist’s suburban home was located near a popular club in Argenteuil.
- Maker/Artist
- Caillebotte, Gustave
- Classification
- Drawing
- Formatted Medium
- black chalk on Arches modern laid paper
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 47.6 x 31.5 cm (18 3/4 x 12 3/8 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: Stamped, at lower right, in dark purple ink: G. Caillebotte; watermark, at top margin: MBM (for Arches MBM)
- Departments
- Drawings
- Accession Number
- 2020.260
- Credit Line
- John L. Severance Fund
- Exhibitions
- Impressionism to Modernism: The Keithley Collection, Nineteenth-Century French Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art, <em>Gustave Caillebotte, 1848–1894: Dessins, études, peintures</em>. Brame & Lorenceau, Paris (February 28–March 24, 1989).<br><br><em>Gustave Caillebotte, 1848–1894: Dessins, pastels et peintures</em>. Brame & Lorenceau, Paris (October 15–November 27, 1998).<br><br><em>Gustave Caillebotte: Impressionist in Modern Paris</em>. Bridgestone Museum of Art, Tokyo (October 10–December 29, 2013).<br><br><em>Caillebotte, peintre et jardinier</em>. Musée des impressionnismes, Giverny (March 25–July 3, 2016); Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid (July 19–October 30, 2016).
- Rights Statement
- CC0
- Museum Location
- 101B Prints & Drawings
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