Gustave Caillebotte — a once-in-a-generation show at the Musée d’Orsay

Jackie Wullschlager | Financial Times | 31st October 2024

“Lone men haunt Caillebotte’s paintings.” The writer feels this “vast” retrospective is rather fixated on the matter, although it seems a reasonable inquiry. Male figures are more common in his work compared to the other Impressionists. Anyway, this writer isn’t pleased, especially as Caillebotte’s “truly original” flower paintings are omitted.  What seems agreed, though, is that Caillebotte had a unique vision of Paris’s urban life, “recognisable but imaginatively transformed.” [If the FT link doesn’t work, try this.]