Martial Caillebotte (1853–1910) was a French photographer and composer who was also one of the "Fathers of Philately", entering the

Roll of Distinguished Philatelists The Roll of Distinguished Philatelists (RDP) is a Philately, philatelic award of international scale, created by the Philatelic Congress of Great Britain in 1921. The Roll consists of five pieces of parchment to which the signatories add their n ...

in 1921. Caillebotte was the younger brother of the noted artist

Gustave Caillebotte Gustave Caillebotte (; 19 August 1848 – 21 February 1894) was a French painter who was a member and patron of the Impressionists, although he painted in a more realistic manner than many others in the group. Caillebotte was known for his early ...

(1848–1894), and they both inherited a fortune from their father, enabling them to pursue their respective passions throughout life. He married Marie Minoret on 7 June 1887. In 1888, his wife gave birth to a son, Jean, and in 1889 to a daughter, Geneviève. Geneviève inherited the majority of unsold paintings of Gustave Caillebotte. Along with his brother, he formed a joint

stamp collection Stamp collecting is the collecting of postage stamps and related objects. It is an area of philately, which is the study (or combined study and collection) of stamps. It has been one of the world's most popular hobbies since the late nineteenth ...

around 1878 that grew to be one of the most important of its time but disposed of it in 1887, after about ten years following his marriage. The purchaser, with whom they worked on the

plating Plating is a surface covering in which a metal is deposited on a conductive surface. Plating has been done for hundreds of years; it is also critical for modern technology. Plating is used to decorate objects, for corrosion inhibition, to improv ...

, or reconstruction of the original sheet, of important issues including the Sydney View two-pence stamp of Australia, was

Thomas Tapling Thomas Keay Tapling (30 October 1855 – 11 April 1891) was an English businessman and politician. He played first-class cricket and was also an eminent philatelist who formed one of the greatest stamp collections of his era. Early life Taplin ...

, whose

collection Collection or Collections may refer to: * Cash collection, the function of an accounts receivable department * Collection (church), money donated by the congregation during a church service * Collection agency, agency to collect cash * Collectio ...

, including the Caillebotte collection, is part of the philatelic collection of the

British Library The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom and is one of the largest libraries in the world. It is estimated to contain between 170 and 200 million items from many countries. As a legal deposit library, the British ...

.''The British Library Philatelic Collections Newsletter'', Spring 1997 (pdf format).
/ref> File:Famille caillebotte.jpg, A photograph of the Caillebotte family taken by Martial Caillebotte File:Renoir à Montmartre vers 1885.jpg,

Pierre-Auguste Renoir Pierre-Auguste Renoir (; 25 February 1841 – 3 December 1919) was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. As a celebrator of beauty and especially feminine sensuality, it has been said that "R ...

at Montmartre in a photograph by Martial Caillebotte. File:Pierre-Auguste Renoir 120.jpg,

, ''Portrait of Jean and Geneviève Caillebotte,'' 1895

References

External links

Images of photographs by Caillebotte.

''The Caillebotte Brothers, Painter and Photographer''

* 1853 births 1910 deaths 19th-century French male classical pianists Artists from Paris Fathers of philately French philatelists French photographers {{philately-bio-stub