I can’t find it published online anywhere yet, but I’m told privately that the “Caillebotte Brothers Private World” exhibition is coming to Canada. I hope I’m not spilling the beans. I saw it at the Musee Jacquemart Andre in Paris back in March when it had just opened. To a cousin of Gustave and Martial, I was more really interested in the family photos, which I had not yet seen.
I’m planning to attend the opening of the Montreal exhibition. I’m hoping some of the de Launay descendants can make the trip to see not just the exhibition, but our Caillebotte descendant cousins, whom our families had lost touch with after the death of my great-grandmother, Annie de Launay in 1919. My grandfather was just 15 years old, when Gustave died in 1894, but was already a painter and pianist himself by the age of 9, most likely following in his older cousins’ (Martial the pianist, and Gustave the painter) footsteps.
It’s getting close, so the dates should be announced soon. I’ll repeat the official dates and location here on this blog when they are released, but I think it will open sometime in early October.
Related articles
- Paris Show Spotlights Caillebotte Brothers (intransit.blogs.nytimes.com)
- French Impressionism: Brothers in arms (economist.com)
- Caillebotte brothers: A picture of happiness (independent.co.uk)
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