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Study of a Man with Hands in His Pockets
Gustave Caillebotte1893
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
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 <em>Bank of the Seine at Petit Gennevilliers, Winter </em>(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.
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- Title: Study of a Man with Hands in His Pockets
- Creator: Gustave Caillebotte (French, 1848–1894)
- Date Created: 1893
- Physical Dimensions: Sheet: 47.6 x 31.5 cm (18 3/4 x 12 3/8 in.)
- Provenance: Studio of the artist [1848–1894], by descent to his family, (Brame & Lorenceau, Paris, sold to the Josefowitz Collection, Lausanne), (Josefowitz Collection, Lausanne, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH), Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Type: Drawing
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/2020.260
- Medium: black chalk on Arches modern laid paper
- Inscriptions: Stamped, at lower right, in dark purple ink: G. Caillebotte; watermark, at top margin: MBM (for Arches MBM)
- Fun Fact: 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.
- Department: Drawings
- Culture: France, 19th century
- Credit Line: John L. Severance Fund
- Collection: DR - French
- Accession Number: 2020.260
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