Gustave Caillebotte was born on August 19, 1848, in Paris, France, and was part of an upper-class family. In his younger years, he studied Law and received his license to practice it in 1870. From July 1870 to March 1871, he also served in the military, the Garde Nationale Mobile de la Seine. He started studying art in 1873 at the École des Beaux-Arts and reportedly did not stay long. Caillebotte was a wealthy man; he and his brother, Martial Caillebotte, inherited their father’s wealth when their mother died. He was remembered as financially supporting numerous artists and never had the need to support himself through his paintings. He painted genre paintings of everyday scenes and exhibited them in Impressionist exhibitions. He died on February 21, 1894, reportedly from a stroke.