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Caillebotte
was a painter of great originality. Like the
Impressionists, Caillebotte pursued an instant
of vision, recording it with a fullness of truthful
detail. Caillebotte, however, attempted to portray
the rhythms of an industrial society with his
regimented figures and the clock-like precision
of his Paris. In this aspect, he was very much
like the Realists. In 1876 he drew up a will
providing money for an Impressionist exhibition
to be held after his death, and bequeathing
his collection of Impressionist paintings to
the State.
This bequest was made on the condition that
the paintings should first be exhibited in the
Luxembourg (the museum dedicated to the work
of living artists), and later to the Louvre.
He intended that the State should not hide the
paintings away in an attic or provincial museum.
His brother Martial along with Renoir were entrusted
with making sure the provisions of his will
were carried out. Gustave Caillebotte died in
1894.
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