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Gustave Caillebotte was a French collector, philanthropist and painter, representative of Impressionism. In 1857-1862, Gustave successfully studied at the College of Louis the Great. Then Caillebotte studied law at the Sorbonne. In 1868 he completed his legal education, and in 1870 he received a diploma and a license to practice. But already in these years he seriously thought about devoting himself to painting. His early portraits, landscapes and nudity, painted by him, beginning in 1872, when he was twenty-four years old, are distinguished by high skill, in which the virtuoso fluency of the brush is combined with tonality. In 1873 Caillebotte entered the Paris Academy of Fine Arts, but did not stay there for long. Gustave became more and more attracted to impressionism. Many people call Caillebotte an impressionist, but historians argue that "Caillebotte's style belongs to the school of realism, it is just that the artist was strongly influenced by his friends and colleagues - the impressionists."