A French Impressionist painter, Gustave Caillebotte was trained as an engineer but also studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris and created art, prints and paintings in his free time.
Gustave Caillebotte became a friend and patron of Monet and Renoir in 1874 and helped organize the Impressionists' later exhibitions, in which he also showed his own art, prints and paintings.
Gustave Caillebotte's art, prints and paintings were placid Impressionist treatments of landscape scenes which displayed little of the virtuosity of Monet and Renoir.