LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Size Notes:

23 ? by 28 ¾ in. 60 by 73 cm.

Edition:

Executed in 1877.

Description:

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Markings:

signed G Caillebotte and dated 1877 (lower left)

Literature:

Jean-Jacques Lévêque, Les Années Impressionnistes, 1870-1889, Paris, 1990, p. 338, illustrated in color (titled Le Jardinier) Pierre Wittmer, Caillebotte au jardin. La Période d'Yerres, 1960-1879, Saint-Rémy-en-l'Eau, 1990, p. 109, illustrated in color; p. 117, detail illustrated in color (titled Le Jardinier) Pierre Wittmer, Caillebotte and his Garden at Yerres, New York, 1991, p. 109, illustrated in color; p. 117, detail illustrated in color (titled The Gardener) Marie Berhaut, Gustave Caillebotte, catalogue raisonné des peintures et pastels, Paris, 1994, no. 79, p. 102, illustrated (titled Le Jardinier) Clare A.P. Willsdon, In the Gardens of Impressionism, New York, 2004, p. 188, illustrated (titled The Gardener) Michael Marrinan, Gustave Caillebotte, Painting the Paris of Naturalism, 1872-1887, 2016, p. 157, illustrated in color (titled The Gardener)

Provenance:

Ernest May, Paris (acquired before 1925) Lise Marie Antoine-May, Les Bréviaires (acquired by descent from the above and until at least 1977) Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 18 March 1983, lot 25 (probably consigned by the estate of the above) Galerie Schmit, Paris Acquired from the above in 1988 by the present owner