LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Size Notes:

15 x 18.125 in. (38 x 46 cm.)

Markings:

signed by the estate 'G. Caillebotte' (lower left)

Exhibited:

Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gustave Caillebotte, Urban Impressionist, June - September 1995, no. 51, p. 11 (illustrated).

Literature:

M. Berhaut, Caillebotte, sa vie et son oeuvre: Catalogue raisonné des peintures et pastels, Paris, 1978, no. 210, p. 152 (illustrated). M. Berhaut, Caillebotte, Catalogue raisonné des peintures et pastels, Paris, 1994, no. 239, p. 163 (illustrated). R. A. Rabinow & J. Warman, ‘Selected Chronology’, in exh. cat., Cézanne to Picasso: Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant-Garde, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2006, p. 275. P. Wittmer, ‘Au temps de l’absinthe’, in exh. cat., Caillebotte, Au cœur de l’Impressionnisme, Fondation de L'Hermitage, Lausanne, 2005, p. 130 (note 44).

Provenance:

Jules Dubois, Paris, a gift from the artist. Ambroise Vollard, Paris (no. 5157), by circa 1893, until at least 1938, and probably thence by descent. Anonymous sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 27 November 1940, lot 38 (incorrectly titled 'Les pommes'). Private collection, Paris, by whom acquired at the above sale. Anonymous sale, Palais d’Orsay, Paris, 12 December 1979, lot 55. Galerie Schmit, Paris (no. A.5829), by whom acquired at the above sale. Private collection, Boston, by whom acquired from the above, in 1980. Anonymous sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 10 December 1985, lot 51. Private collection, Santa Monica, by 1995. Martha Parrish & James Reinish, Inc., New York (no. PR1344A). Private collection, United States, by whom acquired from the above, in 2000.