Gustave Caillebotte
Madame Bossière Knitting

Public Domain

ExpandFavorite

Artist Gustave Caillebotte (French, 1848–1894)French, 1848–1894

CultureFrench

Titles

Madame Bossière 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

On view

Explore Further

Department

European Art, Beck Collection

Special Collections

Object Type

PAINTING

ProvenanceMartial Caillebotte (1853–1910), Paris, by descent from the artist, 1894 [1]; Marie Minoret Caillebotte (1863–1931), Paris, by descent, 1910 [2]; Geneviève Caillebotte Chardeau (1890–1986), Paris, by descent, 1931 [3]; [likely consigned by her family to B. Lorenceau & Cie, Paris, by 1969] [4]; purchased by Mr. and Mrs. John A. Beck, Houston, 1969; given to MFAH, 1998.

[1] Martial Caillebotte, the younger brother of Gustave (1848–1894), was the only family member to survive the artist and he inherited Gustave’s vast collection.

[2] Upon Martial’s death, his wife Marie inherited the works.

[3] Upon Marie’s death, the works went to her daughter, Geneviève Chardeau. This provenance can be deduced by the fact that Geneviève is known to have owned Edouard Manet, The Croquet Party (Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO; 2015.13.11), which was also sold through the Parisian art dealer Bernard Lorenceau. Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art website: https://art.nelson-atkins.org/objects/47395/the-croquet-party (Accessed by Julia May Boddewyn, 28 August 2024).

[4] Paperwork in the object file confirms that the Becks acquired the work from Lorenceau on 10 October 1969. The title is given as both Le Tricot and Vieille femme tricotant dans un intérieur. (Object File, MFAH. Reviewed by Julia May Boddewyn, 28 August 2024)

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"

Catalogue raisonnéMarie Berhaut, Gustave Caillebotte: Catalogue Raisonné des peintures et pastels, (Paris: Wildenstein Plattner Institute, 1994), no. 67, as Madame Boissière tricotant, 1877, p. 98.

View this object in The Beck Collection

Cataloguing data may change with further research.

If you have questions about this work of art or the MFAH Online Collection please contact us.