Gustave Caillebotte, was very, very rich, good looking and queer. He was also an Impressionist painter who without him the art movement we know as "Impressionism",probably couldn't have come to fruition. Due to his sizable wealth, Caillebotte, was able to finance The Impressionist exhibitions and sometimes even pay the rent for the artist's studios. Claude Monet never seemed to mind asking Caillebotte (or anyone) for a 5 Franc note. The freedom that Caillebotte's money gave him was the ability to paint what he wanted and what he painted was men in his modern Paris. Men planing the floors of his studio, men at crotch eye level rowing boats, men in isolation looking over the new Haussmannian cityscape in the new Paris of The Belle Epoch and of particular interest, men at their bath. Rather unheard of and shocking in its day. Caillebotte knew he would die young and upon his death he bequeathed his entire collection of art to the Louvre Museum. The Museum declined his offer, not once, not twice but three times. By 1928, many years after Caillebotte's early death in 1889 at age 45, the French government decided that they wanted these masterpieces for free as Caillebotte had wished. The offer was repudiated and today you can find his 40 of his own paintings as well as his collection of Impressionist art at the Musee D'Orsay. Caillebotte was born on August 19, 1848
Gustave Caillebotte era muito, muito rico, bonito e homossexual. Ele tambรฉm era um pintor impressionista que, sem ele, o movimento artรญstico que conhecemos como "Impressionismo" provavelmente nรฃo teria se concretizado. Devido ร sua considerรกvel riqueza, Caillebotte conseguiu financiar exposiรงรตes impressionistas e, ร s vezes, atรฉ pagar o aluguel dos estรบdios do artista. Claude Monet nunca pareceu se importar em pedir a Caillebotte (ou a qualquer pessoa) uma nota de 5 francos. A liberdade que o dinheiro de Caillebotte lhe deu foi a possibilidade de pintar o que quisesse, e o que ele pintou foram homens em sua Paris moderna. Homens aplainando o chรฃo de seu estรบdio, homens na altura dos olhos, remando barcos, homens isolados observando a nova paisagem urbana haussmanniana na nova Paris da Belle รpoque e, de particular interesse, homens em seus banhos. Algo bastante inรฉdito e chocante para a รฉpoca. Caillebotte sabia que morreria jovem e, apรณs sua morte, legou toda a sua coleรงรฃo de arte ao Museu do Louvre. O Museu recusou a oferta, nรฃo uma, nรฃo duas, mas trรชs vezes. Em 1928, muitos anos apรณs a morte prematura de Caillebotte, em 1889, aos 45 anos, o governo francรชs decidiu que queria essas obras-primas gratuitamente, como Caillebotte desejava. A oferta foi rejeitada e hoje vocรช pode encontrar suas 40 pinturas, bem como sua coleรงรฃo de arte impressionista, no Museu D'Orsay. Caillebotte nasceu em 19 de agosto de 1848.
