The orange trees
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| The orange trees |
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| Gustave Caillebotte , 1878 |
| Oil on canvas |
| 157 × 117 cm |
| Museum of Fine Arts , Houston |
The orange trees (French: Les orangers , English: The Orange Trees ) is a painting by the French painter Gustave Caillebotte from 1878. The dimensions of the painting are 157 × 117 cm. The painting belongs to the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston .
Image description
The painting shows a scene in the garden of the Caillebotte family's country estate in Yerres . A man can be seen in the foreground - Martial Caillebotte , the artist's brother. He is sitting on a chair in the shade of the orange trees , his back turned to the viewer. A little further away, behind a small table with chairs, near an orange tree, stands a girl - Zoé, Gustave and Martial's cousin. In the painting you can only see the lower part of the orange tree foliage. In the background you can see the illuminated footpath that leads around a bed of bright red flowers. Art historian Kirk Varnedoe noted that the size and style of this painting seem to be more closely related to paintings by Monet and Renoir from the 1860s than to other works from the late 1870s.
Background to the creation
The painter's father bought the Yerres estate in the greater Paris area in 1860. The house and the surrounding park remained in the family's possession until the painter's mother died in 1878. In the same year the painting The Orange Trees was created . The former country estate of the Caillebotte family (French: La Propriété Caillebotte ) is now owned by the city of Yerres and is open to the public.
Provenance
The painting remained in his possession until the painter's death in 1894 and then passed on to his brother Martial's family through inheritance. They sold the picture through the Parisian art dealer Lorenceau to a collector in Zurich whose name was unknown. The painting ended up in the collection of John A. and Audrey Jones Beck from Houston via the Zurich Feilchenfeldt Gallery . After lending the picture The Orange Trees to the local Museum of Fine Arts for a number of years, it was donated to this institution in 1999 along with other works from the Beck Collection ( John A. and Audrey Jones Beck Collection ).
literature
- Kirk Varnedoe : Gustave Caillebotte . Yale University Press, New Haven and London 1987, ISBN 0-300-08279-7 .
- Marie Berhaut : Gustave Caillebotte. Catalog raisonné des peintures et pastels . Wildenstein Institute, Paris 1994, ISBN 2-908063-09-3 .
- Pierre Wittmer: Caillebotte au jardin, la période d'Yerres (1860 - 1879) . Editions d'Art Hayot, Saint-Rémy-en-l'Eau 1990, ISBN 2-903824-15-0 .
- Victoria Charles, Nathalia Brodskaïa: Caillebotte . (E-book), Parkstone-International, 2012, ISBN 1-7804-2254-7 .
Web links
- The Orange Trees, 1878, Gustave Caillebotte , Google Art Project , www.googleartproject.com
- Europe / Beck Collection: The Orange Trees (Gustave Caillebotte) , The "Unofficial" Blog of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Individual evidence
- ↑ The German title can be found in Victoria Charles, Nathalia Brodskaïa: Caillebotte , p. 251, the French title in Pierre Wittmer: Caillebotte au jardin , p. 184, the English title The Orange-trees in Kirk Varnedoe: Gustave Caillebotte , p. 108. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston uses the spelling The Orange Trees on its website .
- ↑ a b c d Marie Berhaut: Gustave Caillebotte , p. 117.
- ↑ Gustave Caillebotte - The Orange Trees . The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Archived from the original on June 27, 2013. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved July 7, 2013.
- ↑ Kirk Varnedoe: Gustave Caillebotte , p. 108.
- ↑ Kirk Varnedoe: Gustave Caillebotte , p. 5.
- ^ Yerres: La Propriété Caillebotte . www.yerres.fr. Retrieved July 7, 2013.
- ↑ Patricia C. Johnson: 47 works from Beck Collection become permanent MFA holdings . Houston Chronicle . February 26, 1999. Accessed on July 9, 2013. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
