[French Impressionist Painter, 1848-1894] Gustave Caillebotte
was born on August 19, 1848 to an upper-class Parisian family.
His father, Martial Caillebotte (1799-1874), was the inheritor
of the family's textile industry and was also a judge at the
Seine's Tribunal de Commerce. Caillebotte's father had been
twice widdowed before marrying Caillebotte's mother, Céleste
Daufresne (1819-1878), who had two more sons after Gustave, René
(1851-1876) and Martial (1853-1910). Caillebotte was born at his
family's home on rue du Faubourg-Saint-Denis in Paris, and lived
on that street until 1866 when his father had a home built on
rue de Miromesnil in Paris. The Caillebottes began spending many
of their summers in Yerres, a town on the Yerres River about 12
miles south of Paris, in 1860, when Martial Caillebotte, Sr.
bought a large property there. It was around this time that
Caillebotte probably began to draw and paint. Many of
Caillebotte's paintings depict members of his family and daily
domestic life; Young Man at Hi