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Thomas Couture (1815-1879)
Professions: Historical-scenes painter; Porträtmaler
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Thomas Couture (French, 1815-1879)
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Thomas Couture , French 1815-1879 Study for Stella Maris oil on canvas
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Thomas Couture (French, 1815-1879)
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THOMAS COUTURE (FRENCH, 1815-1879) STUDY FOR L'AMOUR DE L'OR
Thomas Couture Biography
(b Senlis, 21 Dec 1815; d Villiers-le-Bel, 3 March 1879). French painter and teacher. A student of Antoine-Jean Gros in 1830–38 and Paul Delaroche in 1838–9, he demonstrated precocious ability in drawing and was expected to win the Prix de Rome. He tried at least six times between 1834 and 1839, but achieved only second prize in 1837 (entry untraced). Disgusted with the politics of the academic system, Couture withdrew and took an independent path. He later attacked the stultified curriculum of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and discouraged his own students from entering this institution. He first attained public notoriety at the Paris Salon with Young Venetians after an Orgy (1840; Montrouge, priv. col., see Boime, p. 85), the Prodigal Son (1841; Le Havre, Mus. B.-A.) and the Love of Gold (1844; Toulouse, Mus. Augustins). These early canvases are treated in a moralizing and anecdotal mode; the forms and compositional structures, like the debauched and corrupt protagonists, are sluggish and dull. Yet what made his work seem fresh to the Salon audience was his use of bright colour and surface texture derived from such painters as Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps and Eugène Delacroix, while his literary bent and methodical drawing demonstrated his mastery of academic tradition. The critics Théophile Gautier and Paul Mantz (1821–95) proclaimed him as the leader of a new school that mediated between the old and the new, and looked to him for a revitalization of Salon painting. The air of compromise his works projected made him appear a cultural representative of the juste milieu policies of Louis-Philippe.
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Thomas Couture French, 1815-1879 TZIGANE
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*Thomas Couture (1815-1879) Recto: study of a dead soldier; verso: male figure study. Black chalk
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Thomas Couture Senlis 1815 - 1879 Villiers-le-Bel , recto : study of a dead soldier verso : the lower half of a study of a male nude black chalk on light blue paper ( recto and verso ) numbered in black chalk, verso : 24
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Thomas Couture (French, 1815-1879)
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