 Caillebotte also painted his friend with him in his studio in "Autoportrait au chevalet" (1879-1880) which proves their closeness and their agreement on the cultural, artistic and political life of that time.This painting was exhibited at the last impressionist exhibition in 1882, but it went relatively unnoticed.The influence of the master of Caillebotte, Leon Bonnat, seen in the rendering of the face and the black suit, but the diagonal perspective (with the play of angle), the look of Richard Gallo and the decoration of arabesques and stripes of the fabric of the sofa, express the impressionist point of view of the artist.