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Thomas Couture
French Academic Classical painter,
history painter, portraitist & teacher
born 21 December 1815 - died 30 March 1879
Born in: Senlis (Oise, Picardy, France).
Died in: Villiers-le-Bel (Val-d'Oise, Ile-de-France,
France).
Student of:
Paul
Delaroche (1797-1856),
Antoine-Jean Gros
(1771-1835). |
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Teacher of:
Auguste Bachelin
(1830-1890),
Mary
Cassatt (1844-1926),
Marcellin Desboutin
(1823-1902) from 1847 to 1848,
Henri Fantin-Latour
(1836-1904),
Anselm Friedrich
Feuerbach (1829-1880),
Lorenz Frolich
(1820-1908) from 1852 to 1853,
Leopold Güterbock
(c.1820-1881), Nathaniel Hone II
(1831-1917),
William Morris Hunt (1824-1879),
Olaf Isaachsen (1835-1893) from 1859 to
1860, August
Jernberg (1826-1896),
Eastman Johnson
(1824-1906),
John LaFarge (1835-1910),
Éduard Manet
(1832-1883), Ole Henrik Olrik (1830-1890) in
1854, Félix Perret
(active 1865-1869),
Sobeslav Pinkas
(1827-1901), Karel
Purkyne (1834-1868) in 1857,
Pierre Cécile Puvis de
Chavannes (1824-1898).
Employer of: Johan
August Malmstrom (1829-1901) from
1857 to 1863.
Student at: École
des Arts et Métiers, Paris; École
des Beaux-Arts.
Winner of: Prix de
Rome (from 1837).
Buried at: Pere Lachaise Cemetery, Paris. |
THOMAS COUTURE (1815-1879) was an
influential French history painter and
teacher.
He was born at Senlis Oise, France and at
age 11, Thomas Couture's family moved to
Paris where Thomas Couture would study at the industrial
arts school (École des Arts et Métiers) and
later at the École des Beaux-Arts. Thomas
Couture failed
the prestigious Prix de Rome competition at
the École six times, but Thomas Couture felt the problem
was with the École, not himself. Couture
finally did win the prize in 1837. |
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In 1840, Thomas Couture began exhibiting historical and
genre pictures at the Paris Salon, earning
several medals for Thomas Couture’s works,
in particular for Thomas Couture’s 1847
masterpiece, Romans in the Decadence of the
Empire, now in the Luxembourg. Shortly after
Thomas Couture’s tThomas Couture’s 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 Thomas Couture received Government and
Church commissions for murals during the
late 1840s through the 1850s, and obtained
several medals. However, Thomas Couture never completed
the first two commissions, while the third
met with mixed criticism. Upset by the
unfavorable reception of Thomas Couture’s
murals, in 1860 Thomas Couture left Paris for a time
returning to Thomas Couture’s hometown of
Senlis where Thomas Couture continued to teach young
artists who came to him. In 1867 Thomas
Couture thumbed
Thomas Couture’s nose at the academic
establishment by publishing a book on Thomas
Couture’s own ideas and working methods. |
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During Thomas
Couture’s lifetime, Couture taught such
later luminaries of the art world as Edouard
Manet, Henri Fantin-Latour, and Pierre Puvis
de Chavannes.
Asked by a publisher to do an autobiography,
Thomas Couture responded with words that are
even more appropriate today: "Biography is
the exaltation of personality --- and
personality is the scourge of our time."
Thomas Couture died at Villiers-le-Bel,
Île-de-France and was interred in the Pere
Lachaise Cemetery, Paris, France. |
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