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Thomas Couture (21 December 1815 – 30 March 1879) 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,[1] Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Karel Javůrek, and Joseph-Noël Sylvestre.

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Thomas Couture
Thomas Couture, self-portrait
Born	Thomas Couture (1815-12-21)21 December 1815 Senlis, Oise, France
Died	30 March 1879(1879-03-30) (aged 63) Villiers-le-Bel, Val-d'Oise, France
Resting place	Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris, France
Education	École des Arts et Métiers
Known for	Painting, Author
Notable work	Romans in the Decadence of the Empire

Life

Early life and education
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.

Art and teaching career
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.

Asked by a publisher to write an autobiography, Couture responded: "Biography is the exaltation of personality—and personality is the scourge of our time."

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

Selected paintings

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  The Romans in their Decadence (1847)
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  Portrait of a Seated Woman (1850)
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  Anselm Feuerbach (1852)
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  The Supper after the Masked Ball [1857]
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  The Duel After the Masked Ball (1857)
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  Daydreams (1859).
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  A Lawyer Going to Court (1860s)

Nazi-looted art in the Gurlitt collection

Couture’s Portrait of a Seated Woman, (c.1850-1855), discovered in the Gurlitt trove, was identified as having belonged to Georges Mandel from a small hole in the canvas. It was restituted to Mandel's heirs in 2019.[2][3]

References

Further reading

• O'Neill, J., ed. (2000). "Index". Romanticism and The School of Nature: Nineteenth-century drawings and paintings from the Karen B. Cohen collection. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

External links

• Media related to Thomas Couture at Wikimedia Commons
• Thomas Couture at Find a Grave
• Article on Thomas Couture

На других языках

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[de] Thomas Couture

Thomas Couture (geboren 21. Dezember 1815 in Senlis, Département Oise; gestorben 30. März 1879 in Villiers-le-Bel, Département Val-d’Oise) war ein französischer Maler.

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- [en] Thomas Couture

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[es] Thomas Couture

Thomas Couture (Senlis, 21 de diciembre de 1815 - Villiers-le-Bel, 30 de marzo de 1879) fue un pintor y profesor de pintura francés de estilo académico.

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[fr] Thomas Couture

Thomas Couture, né le 21 décembre 1815 à Senlis et mort le 29 mars 1879 à Villiers-le-Bel, est un peintre français. Réputé pour ses compositions historiques, il fut un important enseignant sous le Second Empire. Son œuvre la plus connue est Les Romains de la décadence[1].

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[it] Thomas Couture

Thomas Couture (Senlis, 21 dicembre 1815 – Villiers-le-Bel, 30 marzo 1879) è stato un pittore francese.

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[ru] Кутюр, Тома

Тома́ Кутю́р (фр. Thomas Couture; 21 декабря 1815[1][2][3][…], Санлис — 30 марта 1879[4], Вилье-ле-Бель) — французский художник-академист. Наиболее известен как автор исторических полотен, аллегорических и жанровых картин. Учился у Антуана-Жана Гро и Поля Делароша. Прославился картиной «Римляне времён упадка», которую писал три года и выставил в парижском Салоне в 1847 году. После этого успеха открыл собственную мастерскую в Париже, где занималось несколько десятков учеников, в том числе из других стран. Со временем интерес к его творчеству утрачивается. В 1863 году вынужден был закрыть свою мастерскую, а в 1869 году переезжает в Вилье-ле-Бель, где и умер в 1879 году.

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