Villas at Trouville (1884): Art, History and Details

Villas at Trouville (1884) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Gustave Caillebotte (French, 1848–1894).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

Gustave Caillebotte painted this dramatic view of the blue-green sea, illuminated by a cloud-dappled sky, from one of the cliffs of Trouville, a popular resort town on the Normandy coast in northern France. The brick villas in the foreground, just outside the center of the town, offered homeowners a private shoreline retreat. During the early 1880s, Caillebotte spent several summers on the Normandy coast where he painted, participated in sailing regattas, and visited friends.

Object facts

• Title: Villas at Trouville
• Date: 1884
• Creator attribution: Gustave Caillebotte (French, 1848–1894)
• Culture: France, 19th century
• Type: Painting
• Technique: oil on canvas
• Dimensions: Unframed: 66 x 81.3 cm (26 x 32 in.)
• Collection: Mod Euro - Painting 1800-1960
• Department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture
• Accession number: 2020.105

A detail from the museum

In addition to his career as an artist, Caillebotte was an award-winning sailor and designed his own racing sailboats.

Collection credit

Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift

Further reading listed by the museum

• Brown, Heather Lemonedes. “Impressionism to Modernism: The Keithley Collection.” Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine 62, no. 2 (2022): 20-21.
• Galerie Durand-Ruel. Exposition rétrospective d'œuvres de G. Caillebotte. Paris: Galerie Durand-Ruel, 1894.
• Berhaut, Marie, and Gustave Caillebotte. Caillebotte: sa vie et son oeuvre : catalogue raisonné des peintures et pastels. Paris, France: La Bibliothèque des Arts, 1978.

View the collection record

See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.