Shop art print and framed art Man on a Balcony by Gustave Caillebotte

Man on a Balcony is an oil on canvas by the French Impressionist painter Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1894) dating from around 1880. The painting measures 116 × 97 cm and is signed lower right. It shows a bearded man in profile, dressed in a grey morning coat and leaning over a balcony on the third floor of a Parisian building, 31 boulevard Haussmann, in the luxurious flat just behind the Opera where Gustave Caillebotte and his brother Martial lived. The man in his thirties leaning against the railing was identified as Maurice Brault, one of the artist's best childhood friends, who shared his passion for naval architecture. A stockbroker, he came from the best Parisian bourgeoisie, and his parents owned a villa in Yerres next to the Caillebottes'. He features in another of Caillebotte's 1881 works, La Partie de bésigue (kept at the Musée du Louvre Abu Dhabi). The monotonous perspective of the boulevard Haussmann, lined with plane trees, forms a vanishing point behind the back of the figure in profile, as if he were absorbed (as a mere observer in the background) by the scene taking place below in the street, and thus himself absent from the viewer's attention. This theme of a balcony in Paris was treated several times by Caillebotte, and in particular that of the balcony of his Haussmann building (for example: L'Homme au balcon, boulevard Haussmann (1880), showing a man from behind"; Un balcon (1880) with two men in profile on the same balcony, but from the right). [...]

 

This artwork is a painting from the modern period. It belongs to the impressionism style.

 

« Man on a Balcony » is kept at Private Collection.

 

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