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 The grave of Thomas Couture at Père Lachaise, Paris. Picture by Androom (28 Aug 2001) |
Couture, Thomas |
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BORN 21 Dec 1815, Senlis - DIED 30 Mar 1879, Villiers-le-Bel (castle near Paris) GRAVE LOCATION Paris: Père Lachaise, Rue du Repos 16 (division 4, 1ere ligne) |
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Thomas Couture studied in Paris at the École des Arts et Métiers
and at the École des Beaux-Arts. He was a pupil of Paul Delaroche
and Antoine-Jean Gros. He failed to win the Prize of Rome on
six occasions, but never doubted himself and finally succeeded
in 1837. He was a supporter of the academic tradition and considered his contemporaries 'drunken clowns'. However, his techniques were modern. His historical and genre pictures won him several medals and his "Romans in the Decadence of the Empire" (1847, Musee d'Orsay, Paris) was a huge success. At a certain time Couture rejected Manet from his studio because Manet wanted to paint the models with their clothes on instead of nude (the classical way). In 1860 he returned to his native Senlis for a while, where he was a teacher to young painters. He published a book on his own ideas and methods in 1867. After his death his reputation faded and in the twentieth century his larger works were regarded as too bombastic. Related persons • was pupil to Delaroche, Paul • influenced Feuerbach, Anselm • was pupil to Gros, Antoine-Jean • has a connection with Manet, Edouard • worked for Napoleon III Bonaparte, Empereur des Français • used as a model Ozy, Alice • was teacher to Purkyne, Karel • was teacher to Puvis de Chavannes, Pierre Sources • Culbertson, Judi & Tom Randall, Permanent Parisians, Robson Books, London, 1991 • Winkler Prins Encyclopedie (editie 1909), 1909 • Wikipedia (English) |
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The grave of Thomas Couture at Père Lachaise, Paris. Picture by Androom (28 Aug 2001) |
