Gustave Caillebotte was born on August 19, 1848 to an upper-class Parisian family.
His father, Martial Caillebotte (1799-1874), was the inheritor of the family's military textile business
and was also a judge at the Seine department's Tribunal de Commerce. Caillebotte's father was twice widowed
before marrying Caillebotte's mother, Celeste Daufresne (1819-1878),
who had two more sons after Gustave, Rene (1851-1876) and Martial (1853-1910).
Caillebotte was born at home on rue du Faubourg-Saint-Denis in Paris, a
nd lived on that street until 1866 when his father had a home built on rue de Miromesnil. Beginning in 1860,
the Caillebotte family began spending many of their summers in Yerres, a town on the Yerres River about 12 miles south of Paris,
where Martial Caillebotte, Sr. had purchased a large property. It was around this time that Caillebotte probably began to draw and paint.