Self-Portrait with a Hat

Prints and Drawings

c. 1879

Gustave Caillebotte
French, 1848-1894

Born into a Parisian upper middle-class family, Gustave Caillebotte was attracted to the innovations of the young artists who became known as the Impressionists. He officially joined the group for their second exhibition, in April 1876, and then organized the exhibition of 1877, where he showed Paris Street; Rainy Day, his masterpiece.

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Artist: Gustave Caillebotte
Title: Self-Portrait with a Hat
Place: France (Artist's nationality)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1874–1884
Medium: Graphite on off-white, medium-weight, moderately textured laid paper
Dimensions: 49 × 31.5 cm (19 5/16 × 12 7/16 in.)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by Janet and William Jentes
Reference Number: 1995.189
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Kirk Varnedoe, Gustave Caillebotte (Yale University Press, 1987), p. 182, fig. 62b (ill.).
Marie-Josèphe de Balanda, Gustave Caillebotte: La vie, la technique, l’oeuvre peint (Edita, 1988), p. 40 (ill.).
Jean Chardeau, Les dessins de Caillebotte (Hermé, 1989), p. 101 (ill.).
“Cat. 5: Self-Portrait with a Hat,” in Caillebotte Paintings and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago, ed. Gloria Groom and Genevieve Westerby (Art Institute of Chicago, 2015). https://publications.artic.edu/caillebotte/reader/paintingsanddrawings/section/574/574_anchor

Paris, Galerie Brame and Lorenceau, “Gustave Caillebotte,” february 28-March 24, 1989, cat. A (ill.).
Art Institute of Chicago, “Master Drawings Unveiled: 25 Years of Major Acquisitions,” August 27, 2016–January 29, 2017, no cat.

By descent from the artist to his brother Martial Caillebotte (1853–1910) and Marie Minoret (Martial’s wife), Paris, 1894 [estate stamp lower right]; private collector, France, c. 1985 [Sylvie Brame, Brame et Lorenceau, Oct. 1, 2014]; Galerie Brame et Lorenceau, Paris, by 1995 [Sylvie Brame, Brame et Lorenceau, Oct. 1, 2014]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1995.

Cat. 5 Self-Portrait with a Hat, c. 1879

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