Gustave Caillebotte, in broad strokes on France 5

The flowers do not smell, the sky is dull. There is in the paintings of Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1894) an almost disillusioned accuracy. Less well known than Monet or Pissarro, the painter stayed a little behind the impressionist movement by using a different style. And by disappearing young, at 46 years old. It took a vast exhibition, in 1994 at the Grand Palais, for the public to rediscover the man and his work. That this documentary, taken from the collection "A house, an artist", tries to tell, by exploring the field of Yerres, family property immortalized on many of his paintings. The voiceover is that of Patrick Poivre d'Arvor, who has directed this series for France 5 for eleven years now.

Young boy, Gustave Caillebotte never stops climbing and descending the three floors of this white and neoclassical house decorated with small columns before losing himself in the twelve hectares of English garden.

The Caillebotte parents had offered themselves these places,

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