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The greatest Impressionist painter might not be Monet, Renoir, Gaugin, Seurat, Cezanne, Pissarro, or Manet. It might be someone you’ve likely never heard of: Gustave Caillebotte.
Caillebotte was a wealthy friend and patron of the Impressionists before they achieved mainstream success or recognition; he was also a brilliant artist in his own right, with an incredible eye for the sublime beauty of everyday scenes, including the work of these floor scrapers:
His work has an immediacy and vividness and photo-adjacent realism that sets it apart from much of the Impressionist oeuvre. He was a tireless promoter of his friends’ artistic output, but because he did not sell or promote his own work, it remained in relative obscurity.
I believe it’s worthy of more long-overdue recognition
