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Property from the Estate of William J. Levy, Sold to Benefit the Endowed Scholarship at the University of Pennsylvania

Gustave Caillebotte

Portrait de Émile-Jean Fontaine, libraire

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November 14, 11:00 PM GMT

Estimate

700,000 - 1,000,000 USD

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Property from the Estate of William J. Levy, Sold to Benefit the Endowed Scholarship at the University of Pennsylvania

Gustave Caillebotte

1848 - 1894


Portrait de Émile-Jean Fontaine, libraire

signed G Caillebotte and dated 1885 (lower left)

oil on canvas

25⅝ by 32⅛ in.

65.1 by 81.6 cm.

Executed in 1885.


The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by the Comité Caillebotte.

Please note that this work has been requested for the exhibition 'Gustave Caillebotte: Painting Men' to be held at the Musée d'Orsay, J. Paul Getty Museum, and Art Institute of Chicago, opening October 2024.

Émile-Jean Fontaine, Paris (acquired as a gift from the artist)

Jules Meynial, Paris (acquired before 1921)

Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 25 June 1982, lot 9

Josefowitz Collection, Switzerland

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Marie Berhaut, La Vie et l'oeuvre de Gustave Caillebotte, Paris 1951, nos. 156 and 225

Marie Berhaut, Gustave Caillebotte, sa vie et son oeuvre, Catalogue raisonné des peintures et pastels, Paris 1978, no. 291, p. 179, illustrated and no. 296, p. 181, illustrated (titled Portrait d'homme écrivant dans son bureau)

Marie-Josèphe de Balanda, Gustave Caillebotte, la vie, la technique, l’oeuvre peint, Lausanne 1988, pp. 128-29, illustrated (titled Portrait d'homme écrivant dans son bureau)

Karin Sagner, Gustave Caillebotte. Neue Perspektiven des Impressionismus, Munich 2009, no. 21, pp. 96-97, illustrated

Eric Darragon, Caillebotte, Paris 1994, p. 119, illustrated

Marie Berhaut, Gustave Caillebotte, Catalogue raisonné des peintures et pastels, Paris 1994, no. 319, p. 192, illustrated

Michael Marrinan, Gustave Caillebotte, Los Angeles 2016, p. 269, fig. 129, illustrated

Exh. Cat., Martigny, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Gustave Caillebotte - Impressionnist et moderne, p. 150, illustrated

Brussels, Les XX, 1888, no. 4

Paris, Durand-Ruel, Exposition retrospective d’oeuvres de G. Caillebotte, 1894, no. 44

Paris, Salon d'automne, Rétrospective Gustave Caillebotte, 1921, no. 2736 

Paris, Grand Palais, Art Institute of Chicago and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gustave Caillebotte: Urban Impressionist, 1994-1995, no. 85, pp. 220-221, illustrated (titled Portrait d'homme écrivant dans son bureau)

London, Royal Academy of Arts, Gustave Caillebotte: The Unknown Impressionist, 1996, no. 28, illustrated (titled Portrait d'homme écrivant dans son bureau)