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Thomas Couture - Two sisters

Two sisters

Thomas Couture (French, 1815-1879)
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Thomas Couture

Thomas Couture was a French history painter and teacher. He taught such later luminaries of the art world as Édouard Manet, Henri Fantin-Latour, John La Farge, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Karel Javůrek, and J-N Sylvestre.

Couture was born at Senlis, Oise, France. When he was 11 his family moved to Paris, where he would study at the industrial arts school (École des Arts et Métiers) and later at the École des Beaux-Arts.

He failed the prestigious Prix de Rome competition at the École six times, but he felt the problem was with the École, not himself. Couture finally did win the prize in 1837.

In 1840 he began exhibiting historical and genre pictures at the Paris Salon, earning several medals for his works, in particular for his masterpiece, Romans During the Decadence (1847). Shortly after this success, Couture opened an independent atelier meant to challenge the École des Beaux-Arts by turning out the best new history painters.

Couture's innovative technique gained much attention, and he received Government and Church commissions for murals during the late 1840s through the 1850s. He never completed the first two commissions, and the third met with mixed criticism. Upset by the unfavorable reception of his murals, in 1860 he left Paris, for a time returning to his hometown of Senlis, where he continued to teach young artists who came to him. In 1867 he thumbed his nose at the academic establishment by publishing a book on his own ideas and working methods called Méthode et entretiens d'atelier (Method and Workshop Interviews). It was also translated to Conversations on Art Methods in 1879, the year he died.

In 1879 he died at Villiers-le-Bel, Val-d'Oise, and was interred in Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris.

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Details of the Model’s Head and Hat, for ‘La Peinture Réaliste’

Details of the Model’s Head and Hat, for ‘La Peinture Réaliste’

Thomas Couture (French, 1815-1879)
Nude

Nude

Thomas Couture (French, 1815-1879)
Damoclès assis

Damoclès assis

Thomas Couture (French, 1815-1879)
Portrait de Marie-Dominique Sibour (1792-1857), archevêque de Paris de 1848 à 1857

Portrait de Marie-Dominique Sibour (1792-1857), archevêque de Paris de 1848 à 1857 (1856)

Thomas Couture (French, 1815-1879)
Etude faite d’après Jules Michelet

Etude faite d’après Jules Michelet (1843)

Thomas Couture (French, 1815-1879)
Schwestern

Schwestern

Thomas Couture (French, 1815-1879)
Drummer Boy

Drummer Boy (1857)

Thomas Couture (French, 1815-1879)
Romans during the Decadence

Romans during the Decadence (1847)

Thomas Couture (French, 1815-1879)
Portrait Study of the Painter Anselm Feuerbach

Portrait Study of the Painter Anselm Feuerbach (Ca. 1853)

Thomas Couture (French, 1815-1879)
Jules Michelet

Jules Michelet (1845)

Thomas Couture (French, 1815-1879)
Lawyer on His Way to Court (Se Rendant à l’Audience)

Lawyer on His Way to Court (Se Rendant à l’Audience)

Thomas Couture (French, 1815-1879)
The Supper after the Masked Ball

The Supper after the Masked Ball (1850–1860)

Thomas Couture (French, 1815-1879)
A Zouave

A Zouave (1856–62)

Thomas Couture (French, 1815-1879)
Pierrot in Criminal Court

Pierrot in Criminal Court (c. 1864-1870)

Thomas Couture (French, 1815-1879)
Horace and Lydia

Horace and Lydia (1843)

Thomas Couture (French, 1815-1879)
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