Gustave Caillebotte
French, 1848-1894
Calf's Head and Ox Tongue, c. 1882
Oil on canvas
29 x 21 in. (73 x 54 cm)
Major Acquisitions Centennial Endowment, 1999.561
Medieval to Modern European Painting and Sculpture
On display at the Kimbell Museum, Fort Worth, Texas
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
Paris, Galeries Durand-Ruel, Exposition rétrospective d’œuvres de G. Caillebotte, June 4-16, 1894, cat. 94.
Galeries Nationales de Grand Palais, Paris, Gustave Caillebotte: Urban Impressionist, Spetember 16, 1994-January 9, 1995, cat. 96 (ill.); traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, February 18-May 28, 1995 and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, June 22-September 10, 1995.
Publication History
Marie Berhaut, “Catalogue des peintures et pastels,” in Rétrospecive Gustave Caillebotte, exh. cat. (Paris, Galerie Beaux-Arts, 1951), no. 162.
Marie Berhaut, Caillebotte, sa vie et son oeuvre : catalogue raisonné des peintures et pastels (Paris, 1978), no. 222 (ill.).
Marie Berhaut, Gustave Caillebotte: Catalogue raisonné des peintures et pastels (Paris, 1994), no. 244 (ill.).
Éric Darragon, Caillebotte (Paris, 1994), p. 102 (ill.).
Michael Fried, “Caillebotte’s Impressionism,” Representations 66 (Spring 1999), pp. 34-35, fig. 23.
Patrick Shaw Cable, “Questions of Work, Class, Gender, and Style in the Art and Life of Gustave Caillebote,” Ph.D. diss. (Case Western Reserve University, 2000), pp. 87, fig. 47.
“New Acquisition,” News and Events: The Art Institute of Chicago Member’s Magazine (November/December 2000), p. 5, ill.
Gloria Groom, “Calf’s Head and Ox Tongue,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 30, 1 (2004), pp. 66-67, ill.
Pierre Wittmer, “Au temps de l’absinthe: Du marché à la cuisine, puis à la table des naturalists,” in Caillebotte: Au cœur de l’impressionnisme, exh. cat. (Lausanne, Fondation de l’Hermitage, 2005), p. 107, fig. 6.
Ownership History
By descent in the artist's family; sold to the Art Institute, 1999.

