Cleveland Museum of Art
Portrait of a Man
Gustave CaillebotteLinkedCulture matchlcp-a6437e8cde3b
- Date
- 1880
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Culture
- France, 19th century
- Department
- Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 167142
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
This portrait of Albert Courtier was painted in the fourth-floor apartment at 31 boulevard Hausmann in Paris that Gustave Caillebotte shared with his brother Martial. The interior and balcony of this apartment provided the setting for numerous paintings of men in Caillebotte’s social circle surveying the city. Courtier’s pose and unguarded gaze suggest a comfortable rapport with the artist. Their relationship was close: Courtier posed for Caillebotte on several occasions, owned four of the artist’s paintings, and designated his friend as godfather to his eldest daughter. The subject of this portrait is Albert Courtier, Gustave Caillebotte's notary as well as a lifelong family friend.
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- Credit line
- Bequest of Muriel Butkin
- Provenance
- (Galerie Braume and Lorenceau, Paris, France, acquired from the artist's family) | 1972-2009: Noah Butkin [1918-1980], Shaker Heights, OH by inheritance to his wife, Muriel Butkin [1915-2008] | -2009: Estate of Muriel Butkin, Cleveland, OH, bequeathed to the Cleveland Museum of Art | 2009-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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