In this wonderful talk, given by the Art Institute of Chicago’s curatorial assistant Megan True, I loved hearing how Caillebotte purchased paintings from his Impressionist friends to support them financially, and artistically. I didn’t know that happened, or that the Impressionist painters traded paintings among each other.

Caillebotte was a collector and an artist himself, among artists, in a tradition of Impressionism that was shaped. I never really thought about that until now, that there was a movement and someone like Caillebotte recognised it as such, and had the foresight to shape the legacy of it as he collected the works of his friends.