Gustave Caillebotte
Le Pont de l’Europe, 1876
Huile sur toile, 125 × 180 cm
Association des amis du Petit Palais, Genève
Photo Rheinisches Bildarchiv Köln
Treasures of the Petit Palais Geneva
24.01 – 01.06.2025
In Spring 2025, the Fondation de l’Hermitage will be hosting a particularly unusual collection of Impressionist and post-Impressionist masterpieces from the Petit Palais Geneva.
In the 1950s Oscar Ghez, an industrialist of Tunisian origin, began acquiring works that reflect his remarkably free approach to collecting, with an interest in late-19th and early 20th century painting that was not confined to the great masters. Alongside magnificent works by Édouard Manet and Auguste Renoir, Ghez also acquired superb paintings by artists lesser known at the time, such as Gustave Caillebotte, Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen, Charles Angrand, Maximilien Luce and Louis Valtat, some of whom have since become iconic.
Ghez also purchased many paintings by women, including Marie Bracquemond, Jeanne Hébuterne, Nathalie Kraemer, Tamara de Lempicka and Suzanne Valadon, long before their work began to be studied and ultimately received the recognition it deserved.
