Portraits in the Country — Caillebotte | Postcard Zolota Ptakha

Shown at the 1877 Impressionist exhibition and now at the Musée Baron Gérard in Bayeux, this group portrait stages Caillebotte's mother, a cousin, an aunt and a family friend on the terrace at Yerres — sewing, reading, perfectly composed in the afternoon shade. A quiet bourgeois interior pushed into open air; reads well alongside Berthe Morisot or Mary Cassatt in any correspondence.