Gustave

[guhs-tahv, gys-tav]

noun

1. a male given name: from a Germanic word meaning “staff of God.”

Example Sentences

At the Getty, Los Angeles, and then at the Art Institute of Chicago, “Gustave Caillebotte: Painting Men” celebrated the wealthy yachtsman, boat designer, soldier, philatelist, horticulturalist and accomplished painter who exhibited with his Impressionist friends and collected their work.

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When Gustave Flaubert saw Antonio Canova’s sculpture “Eros and Psyche” in 1845, he surreptitiously kissed Psyche’s marble armpit.

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Meanwhile across town, the mainstream Art Institute of Chicago is about to unveil “Gustave Caillebotte: Painting His World,” a traveling exhibition virtually identical to the one already seen in Paris and Los Angeles, where it was notably titled “Gustave Caillebotte: Painting Men.”

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So is the forest of “The Missing Link 6,” where a hunter with a rifle sits quietly at the base of a massive tree trunk, virtually secreted in the landscape, like something rustling in the dense foliage in a Gustave Courbet forest.

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Unlike Manet, Degas, Renoir and Cassatt, Gustave Caillebotte mostly painted men rather than women — men at work, men in repose, even naked men getting out of the bath.

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