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The Critics: Arts Gustave Caillebotte (1848-94) was a paradoxical figure: he was a major patron who was also a major painter, an impressionist who wasn't an impressionist, a modest man who thrived among noisy spirits, an innovator who was also a traditionalist, an urban figure lured by the out-of-town, and a significant artist who for decades was lost in semi-obscurity. Although Caillebotte did not show works at the infamous 1874 exhibition that announced the impressionists to a bemused and outraged public, he did contribute eight paintings to their second show in 1876. The river Yerres flows some 20 kilometres south-east of Paris and the Caillebotte family owned a large, white-stucco villa on its banks; it was a place where Gustave liked to row and swim. [Extracted from the article]

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