Gustave Caillebotte: Impressionist Paintings From Paris to the Sea March 29, 2009

The first major showing of the work of the French Impressionist Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1894) to be presented in New York in more than thirty years will be on view at the Brooklyn Museum. 'Gustave Caillebotte: Impressionist Paintings from Paris to the Sea' presents the artist's well-known Parisian cityscapes alongside his painted scenes of outdoor life on the coast of Normandy and in the rural villages of Yerres and Petit Gennevilliers, where he and his family maintained estates.