Indeed, you could say that some of his canvases were almost photo-realistic, or at least, uncanny in the way a photo can sometimes be.
Born into a wealthy family, Caillebotte lived off an inheritance that permitted him to make art without worrying about sales, and which also allowed him to buy the work of his fellow Impressionists and fund their exhibitions. Like Degas, his style was more realistic than that of his contemporaries. Indeed, you could say that some of his canvases were almost photo-realistic, or at least, uncanny in the way a photo can sometimes be. He painted interior scenes, cityscapes and the occasional rural scene, often employing extreme lines of perspective that gave his paintings a jittery dynamism that was sometimes at odds with the subject. These eccentricities of style may account for the fact that his work was largely forgotten until the 1950s, and not fully appreciated by art historians until the 1970s.