Caillebotte: Impressionist Painter & Patron

 

https://www.tumblr.com/tigrikorn/788366238064820224/the-painter-and-the-rower-gustave-caillebotte

Caillebotte had something most of the Impressionists didn’t:

Money.

That gave him a very different role in the movement.

Monet. Renoir. Degas. Pissarro. Manet.

He bought their paintings when few collectors wanted them. He paid for exhibitions.

And when tensions threatened… pic.twitter.com/E0uuLamr4S

— Impressions (@impression_ists) August 29, 2026

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