Close Looking: Gustave Caillebotte
Gustave Caillebotte, Blue Irises, Garden at Petit Gennevilliers, 1892. Oil on canvas, 55.2 × 46.4 cm. Purchase, with funds by exchange from the R. Fraser Elliott Estate and the Bequest of F.W.G. Fitzgerald. Purchased with the assistance of a Moveable Cultural Property grant accorded by the Department of Canadian Heritage under the terms of the Cultural Property Export and Import Act; Acheté avec l'aide d'un subvention des biens culturels mobiliers accordée par le Ministère du Patrimoine canadien en vertu de la Loi sur l'exportation et l'importation des biens culturels, 2019. © Art Gallery of Ontario 2019/2268
Close Looking: Gustave Caillebotte
Join Caroline Shields, Associate Curator and Head of European Art, as she discusses a 2019 acquisition by French Impressionist painter Gustave Caillebotte. We will take a close look at his painting Blue Irises, Garden at Petit Gennevilliers, and explore what Caillebotte and fellow artist Claude Monet saw as the interconnectedness of art, life, and gardening.
