All Thomas Couture's oil paintings
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58496 Little Bather Little Bather Little Bather (1849)
58492 Romans in the Decadence of the Empire Romans in the Decadence of the Empire Romans in the Decadence of the Empire (1847)
30861 The Concert Singer The Concert Singer mk68 Oil on canvas Philadelphia,Philadelphia Museum of Art 1890-1892 USA
561 The Romans of the Decadence The Romans of the Decadence 1847 Musee d'Orsay, Paris
30697 The Romans of the Decadence The Romans of the Decadence mk68 Oil on canvas Paris,Orsay Museum 1847 France
40693 The Romans of the Decadence The Romans of the Decadence mk156 1847 Oil on canvas 466x775cm
83401 The Romans of the Decadence The Romans of the Decadence 1847(1847) Medium Oil on canvas Dimensions 466 x 773 cm (183.5 x 304.3 in) cyf
85790 The Romans of the Decadence The Romans of the Decadence 1847(1847) Medium Oil on canvas Dimensions 466 x 773 cm (183.5 x 304.3 in) cyf
Thomas Couture
1815-1879 French Thomas Couture Location 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 Eugene Delacroix, while his literary bent and methodical drawing demonstrated his mastery of academic tradition. The critics Thophile 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. . Related Artists to : | Jacob van der Ulft | Broederlam, Melchoir | Meyer, Jeremiah | Tim Verfaillie | Johann Georg Grimm |