"More than fifty of Gustave Caillebotte's (1848-1894) strongest paintings illustrate the fertile period from 1875 to 1885 when he was most closely allied with the impressionists. Accompanying the National Gallery of Art's major new exhibition, coorganized with the Kimbell Art Museum, this volume explores the inquisitive, experimental, almost fearless vision that inspired his masterworks"--
Caillebotte's Deep Focus / Michael Marrinan -- Man in the Middle / George T.M. Shackelford -- Caillebotte in Contemporary Criticism / Mary Morton -- Paintings of Modern Life : Representing Modernity in Baudelaire, Balzac, Zola, and Caillebotte / Alexandra K. Wettlaufer -- All the Discomforts of Home : Caillebotte and the Nineteenth-Century Bourgeois Interior / Elizabeth Benjamin -- Ecce Homo / Stéphane Guégan -- Photography and the Painter's Eye / Sarah Kennel -- Catalog / Mary Morton with Camille Mathieu, Galina Olmsted, and George T.M. Shackelford -- Caillebotte : A Biographical Chronology / Gilles Chardeau -- Caillebotte's Posthumous Reputation, 1894-1994 / Caroline Shields.