Villas at Trouville — About This Work
Gustave Caillebotte, 1884
About the Work
Coastal villas sit below a grassy slope beside a blue-green sea. Caillebotte's elevated viewpoint makes the buildings part of a larger coastal arrangement, with the water opening the image beyond their more compact forms.
The museum locates the view at Trouville on the Normandy coast. It identifies the villas as private shoreline retreats outside the town's centre, giving the painted setting a particular social and geographical context.
The steep change between near ground and sea gives the composition its strength. The eye moves from the more solid foreground towards the lighter space beyond, preserving the sense of looking out from a specific height.
The Work
Artist: Gustave Caillebotte
Title: Villas at Trouville
Date: 1884
Medium: Oil on canvas
Recorded dimensions: 81.3 × 66 cm (W × H)
Collection: Cleveland Museum of Art
Accession number: 2020.105
Print & Presentation
Palatine presentation: 75 × 100 cm Classic Frame, landscape.
The complete artwork is reproduced at its recorded scale, subject only to negligible whole-pixel rounding, without enlargement, reduction, cropping or distortion. The surrounding white presentation area accommodates the artwork within the framed presentation and is incorporated into the print rather than added as a separate mount.
Frame finishes: Black, White or Natural.
Paper & glazing: Enhanced Matte + Perspex; or Enhanced Matte + Moth-Eye.
Why Original Scale?
Most art-print shops offer the same image in a choice of Small, Medium and Large sizes. We take a different approach. For each edition, we begin with the recorded dimensions of the original work and reproduce the complete image at that scale, preserving its proportions and avoiding enlargement, reduction, cropping or distortion.
Source: Image: The Cleveland Museum of Art, CC0. Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift. 2020.105.
Care: Display in a dry interior away from prolonged direct sunlight and sources of moisture.
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