The Paris museum’s most recent acquisition is a painting by Gustave Caillebotte: Partie de bateau. Purchased for 43 million Euros, the work was offered to the Musée d’Orsay as a way to rediscover one of the masters of Impressionism. Visitors to the museum can now find a new masterpiece in one of the main temples of Impressionist painting. Gustave Caillebotte painted Partie de bateau in the late 1870s. It has been acquired for the national collection of the museums of France through on operation was sponsored by the LVMH group, which is a holding company formed by luxury brands such as Hennessy, Louis Vuitton and Moët et Chandon. A unique work, with an unprecedented photographic and cinematographic force for the era in which the French painter lived.
