Gustave Caillebotte (1848) was a French painter and member and patron of the Impressionists. Caillebotte's style belongs to the school of Realism. Caillebotte aimed to paint reality as it existed and as he saw it, trying to reduce the theatrics inherent in painting as much as possible. He also shared the Impressionists' commitment to optical verisimilitude. Caillebotte painted many domestic, family, interior, landscape scenes, but he is best known for his paintings of the city of Paris.