Gustave Caillebotte
Mademoiselle Boissière Knitting

CultureFrench
Titles
  • Mademoiselle Boissière Knitting
Date1877
PlaceFrance
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions25 5/8 × 31 1/2 in. (65.1 × 80 cm)

Credit LineJohn A. and Audrey Jones Beck Collection, gift of Audrey Jones Beck
Object number98.272
Current Location
The Audrey Jones Beck Building
222 Beck Galleries
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ProvenanceThe Caillebotte family, Paris; Bernard Lorenceau, Paris; [Feilchenfeldt Galleries, Zurich]; collection of Mr. and Mrs. John A. Beck, Houston, 1968; gift to MFAH from Mrs. Audrey Jones Beck, 1998.
Exhibition HistoryExhibited: "4me Exposition de peinture... ( Fourth Impressionist Exhibition)," 28 Avenue de l'Opera, Paris, 1879, No. 21.

Exhibited: "Renoir et ses Amis," Musée de Troyes, Troyes, France, 1969. Catalogue p. 36, no. 49 (as Le Tricot).

Exhibited: "Gustave Caillebotte, a Retrospective Exhibition," The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston/The Brooklyn Museum, 1976-77. Catalogue p. 118, no. 30.

Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
signed and dated lower right: "G. Caillebotte 1877"
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