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Villas at Trouville
Gustave Caillebotte1884
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
Gustave Caillebotte painted this view of villas at Trouville, a small town on the Normandy coast, using the distinctive plunging perspectives he had developed in his Parisian street scenes. Varying degrees of paint thickness are skillfully employed to evoke a feeling of immense space and distance. The thicker strokes in the foreground contrast with the delicate, wispy strokes in the sea and the pools of sunlight reflected on the distant water.
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- Title: Villas at Trouville
- Creator: Gustave Caillebotte (French, 1848–1894)
- Date Created: 1884
- Physical Dimensions: Unframed: 66 x 81.3 cm (26 x 32 in.)
- Provenance: Paul Hugot, Paris, France, J. Combes, Paris, France, Alexandre Tarnopol [1889–1983], New York, NY, passed to his brother, Grégoire Tarnopol [1891–1979], New York, NY by 1972, Suzanne Delarbre, New York, NY (sold: Christie's, New York, NY November, 15, 1989, lot 364), (Montgomery Gallery, San Francisco, CA, sold to Private Collection), Paul and Leslie Ridley-Tree, Santa Barabara, CA, (Sotheby's, New York, NY, November 4, 2008, lot 58, sold to Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley), Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley, Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Type: Painting
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/2020.105
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Inscriptions: Signed (posthumously by Martial Caillebotte according to Marie Berhaut) lower right: G. Caillebotte [Distal, 1995]
- Fun Fact: Outside of painting, Caillebotte was also an avid stamp collector, yacht builder, orchid gardener, and textile designer.
- Department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Culture: France, 19th century
- Credit Line: Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift
- Collection: Mod Euro - Painting 1800-1960
- Accession Number: 2020.105
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