The Bezique Game
1880
Gustave Caillebotte
An active member of the Impressionist movement and participant in its exhibitions, Gustave Caillebotte (1848−1894) also collected works by his friends, many of which he then left to public collections in France.
While the game of cards is a common subject of Flemish genre painting, Caillebotte endows it here with the monumental dimension of a history painting while deliberately embedding it in the modernity of his time. The Bezique Game was first shown at the seventh Impressionist exhibition in 1882 and appeared first in the catalogue. Continuing his depictions of fashionable pastimes of the period like rowing, which he practised himself, Caillebotte painted his friends in the setting of the luxurious apartment on Boulevard Haussmann that he shared with his brother, the composer Martial Caillebotte, who is shown on the right smoking a pipe.
Artwork Details
Artist: Gustave Caillebotte |
Title: The Bezique Game |
Geography: Paris, France |
Date: 1880 |
Medium: oil on canvas |
Classification: graphic arts (drawing, painting, engraving, calligraphy) |
Dimensions: 125.3 x 165.6 x 3.4 cm |
Inventory number: LAD 2009.036 |
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