Sketchbook - Caillebotte Young Man at His Window

Elegant Recycled leather sketchbook featuring Gustave Caillebotte's painting, Young Man at His Window - Dimensions: 5 7/8 Height inches x 4.25 Width inches- Page Count: 107- GSM (paper weight): 200 - Materials: Paper and recycled leather - Made in Scotland - Item #: SKBKC This painting presents a young man in a dark suit standing at a large open window in a well-appointed upper-story apartment. With his back to the viewer, his feet planted firmly apart and hands in his pockets, he looks out at a sun-drenched street scene tightly framed by tall, uniform apartment blocks. Beneath him, a lone woman in fashionable attire is about to cross the street, and several horse-drawn carriages complete the urban tableau. When Caillebotte first exhibited the painting, he presented it not as a portrait but as a genre scene, with the title Jeune homme à sa fenêtre (Young Man at His Window). For his model, Caillebotte used his brother René and the family’s newly-built apartment building at the corner of