Artist: Thomas Couture (1815 - 1879)
Nationality: French
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Media: Painting
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Biography:
Thomas Couture studied under Gros and Delacroix before he earned his reputation as a historical and portrait painter. At the 1847 Salon, his painting The Romans of the Decadence was first shown. It made a startling first impression but later was criticized as a bad example of academic painting. His lesser-known works were more successful but perhaps his greatest role in art history was that of a teacher to famous pupils such as Manet, Fantin-Latour, and Puvis de Chavannes.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (40)
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Thomas Couture, The Artist"s Daughter, 1878
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Thomas Couture, Head of a Boy, 19th century
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Thomas Couture, Head of Bacchus, 19th century
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Thomas Couture, Portrait of a Lady, 19th century
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Thomas Couture, The Duel after the Masked Ball, 1857
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Soap Bubbles Thomas Couture (French, 1815-1879)Oil on canvas; 51 1/2 x 38 5/8 in. (130.8
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Thomas Couture - Drummer Boy 1857 oil on canvas The Detroit Institute of Art French
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Thomas Couture - Portrait of the Artist c. 1848 oil on canvas Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester French
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Thomas Couture - A Volunteer of 1792 1848 oil on fabric Cleveland Museum of Art French
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Thomas Couture - A girl's head n.d. oil on canvas The Fitzwilliam Museum French
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Thomas Couture, French, 1815-1879 Family Group 1866 Oil on canvas 40.6 x 32 cm (16
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Thomas Couture - Pierrot in Criminal Court c. 1864-70 oil on wood panel Cleveland Museum of Art French
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Edward Harrison May, American, 1824-1887 The Falconer (copy after Thomas Couture) between 1855-63 Oil on
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Thomas Couture, French, 1815-1879 A Widow 1840 Oil on canvas 92.1 x 73.6 cm (36
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Thomas Couture, French, 1815-1879 Two Soldiers (study for Enrollment of the Volunteers) about 1848 Oil
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Thomas Couture, French, 1815-1879 Nymph and Cupids 1860 Oil on canvas 35 x 27.6 cm
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Thomas Couture, French, 1815-1879 A Soldier (study for The Enrollment of the Volunteers of 1792)
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Thomas Couture, French, 1815-1879 Head of a Young Woman Oil on canvas 49.8 x 43.2
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Evening Dress, 1926-1927 Designed by Edward Molyneux (French, born Britain, 1891 - 1974)Frenchsilk, gelatin; L.
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Portrait of the Painter, 1859 John La Farge (1835-1910)AmericanOil on wood panel; 16 1/16 x
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Thomas Gainsborough - The Hon. Mrs. Thomas Graham c. 1775-1777 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art British
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Thomas Sully, The Reverend Thomas Stockton, 1843
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Thomas Sully - Thomas Alston 1826 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Thomas Lupton, Thomas Chalmers, D.D, L.L.D, & F.R.S.E., 18th - 19th century
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Thomas Sully - Thomas Handasyd Perkins 1832 oil on canvas Boston Athenaeum American
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Thomas Sully - Mrs. Caleb Newbold and Her Son Thomas 1813 oil on canvas The Columbus Museum
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Thomas Cornell, Pig, 1960
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Thomas Hill, Reverend Thomas Starr King, 19th - 20th century
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Hans Holbein the Younger - Sir Thomas More 1527 oil on panel The Frick Collection German
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Thomas King, Thomas Parr, aged 152 years, 18th century
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Thomas Cheesman - Thomas Moor Ld. Chancelour (after Hans Holbien) 1812 colored print University of California, Berkeley Art Museum English
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George de Forest Brush, American, 1855-1941 The Thomas Sisters (Margaret Thomas Gardiner and Helen Thomas
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John Singleton Copley - Thomas Amory II c. 1770-1772 oil on canvas Corcoran Gallery of Art American
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John Wesley Jarvis - Thomas Paine c. 1806-1807 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Pierre-Jean David d'Angers - Thomas Jefferson 1832-1892 bronze National Gallery of Art French
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Rembrandt Peale - Thomas Sully 1859 oil on canvas board National Gallery of Art American
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Gilbert Stuart - Thomas Jefferson c. 1805-07 oil on canvas Bowdoin College Museum of Art American
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John Singleton Copley - Thomas Greene 1758 oil on canvas Cincinnati Art Museum American
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Lady Peel - Sir Thomas Lawrence 1827 oil on canvas The Frick Collection British
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John Hesselius - Thomas Chamberlaine 1772-75 oil on canvas The Detroit Institute of Art American

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (25)
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Irish Museum of Modern Art: Unlikely Sculpture: Hatforms by Philip Treacy
Treacy's work is clearly part of the fashion world but his 'unlikely' sculptures also cross the boundary into visual art. This project is the first time that the sculptural qualities of these forms will be explored in ...
Victoria and Albert Museum: 25 Years of Leading British Couturier: Catherine Walker
"It is timely and appropriate that the V&A should examine the outstanding creative and craft skills involved in making Catherine Walker designs." says curator Amy de la Haye, also author of Catherine Walker, 25 Years, British Couture. "Her work is...
Centraal Museum: WOMAN by Vivienne Westwood, Christian Dior Couture, Maison Martin, Margiela, Junya Watanabe, Ann Demeulemeester, Veronique, Leroy, Bernhard Willhelm, Viktor & Rolf and Hussein Chalayan
In the Centraal Museum’s Stallen, nine fashion designers will present their vision of femininity anno 2003 in the form of an installation, each of which will occupy a space of some 100 square metres. Christian Dior Couture will show eight spectacu...
Netherlands Architecture Institute: Approach the Future: The Asymptote Experience
Architecture and visual art

Asymptote has an international reputation for both their architectural productions and design work as well as for their visual and art-based projects. From their base in New York city, Rashid and Couture extend their ...
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art: Yohji Yamamoto: May I help you
Yohji Yamamoto: May I help you? provides a chance to look back on Yamamoto's work through the works of eight photographers, all of whom have produced “visual” photographs for the Yohji Yamamoto catalogue and other materials related to the desig...
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Romanticism and the School of Nature: Nineteenth-Century Drawings and Paintings from the Karen B. Cohen Collection
The Cohen collection represents several artists in depth; thus, the exhibition features a varied range of work by such masters as Couture, Gericault, Daubigny, ...
Waterloo Gallery: MESH: A Collaboration with Jo Gibbs and Stephan von Lingelsheim
The work is an exploration of colour and shapes, for which the artists devised a specific technique combining digital imagery with painting. Their initial sources of inspiration are images, abstracted from our urban surroundings. These are painted...
Museum of Contemporary Photography: Fifty-Cent Masterpieces: Photographic Reprints Curated by Victor Skrebneski
A Chicago native, Skrebneski has bad his own work published in every major magazine in the United States and Europe, exhibited in galleries and museums around the world, and featured in several books, including Skrebneski Portraits-A Matter of R...
Yale School of Architecture Galleries: New Blue: Recent Work of Graduates of the Yale School of Architecture, 1978-1998
Our graduates have historically been leaders of the profession for generations, said Robert A.M. Stern, dean of the School of Architecture. This is the generation that was raised in the post-modernism debate of the 1980s, and they are now flourish...
Throckmorton Fine Art: Torero: Matadors from Colombia, Mexico, Peru and Spain
His work is strongly influenced by the Latin American culture he absorbed during his childhood in Colombia. Disparate influences such as, the photographs of Irving Penn, religious symbolism, with its elaborate costumes, pageantry and drama, are c...
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa: The First New Zealand Fashion Week
The exhibition comprises six themes. The first is an introduction to the event and includes a profile of Gubb & Mackie, the Auckland-based menswear designers who held the first show of the event. The second show to be profiled was created i...
Fotografisk Center: Carlos Muñoz-Yagüe: Yves Saint Laurent Behind the Scenes of Haute Couture
The intimacy allowed at this moment is like a gift; I like to reach this level, empowered by the invisibility of photographic coverage, conducted with discernment. At this moment, it is possible to see the anxious face of Yves Saint Laurent and to...
National Gallery of Victoria: Swish: Fashionable Melbourne of the 1950
The international influences of British Royalty, Hollywood and French fashion had a significant impact on Melbourne women in the 1950s. High profile Melbourne events, such as the Royal Tour in 1954 and the Olympic Games in 1956, also impacted on t...
Doiron Gallery: Spontaneous Combustion: A Color Study by Annamonica Crooks
With an absolute passion for fashion which persists to this day, I was designing and fabricating innovative couture as young as twelve, winning first place in a contest for men's tie design sponsored by Macy’s department store. As a child, my fir...
Powerhouse Museum: When Philip Met Isabella: Philip Treacy’s Hats for Isabella Blow
Since their first meeting in 1989, Blow has been Treacy’s friend, muse and constant source of inspiration. Many of his most surreal and sculptural hats have been made for her. "Issy never says: ‘You’ve gone too far,’" says Treacy. "She always says...
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Adrian: American Glamour
Drawn from the Museum's Costume Institute, The Brooklyn Museum, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, among others, the exhibition will present a comprehen...
Victoria and Albert Museum: Versace at the V&A: A Retrospective of Gianni Versace (1946-1997)

The exhibition will show Versaces great originality and versatility, and also the craft and innovative technical developments which he pursued in his search for beauty.

The house of Versace is renowned for its style and luxury and Gianni Ve...
San Jose Museum of Art: Girlfriend! The Barbie Sessions by David Levinthal
For the Barbie Series, Levinthal returns Barbie to her fashion model roots. Executed with a professional stylist and dresser on the set, Levinthal's ...
Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland: Angela White: Garbology – Fiber, Fluff and Fuzz
Angela White has had a long and varied obsession with trash. In Garbology – Fiber, Fluff and Fuzz, White transforms trash into treasure and, in doing so, transforms herself, an artist, into a sort of anthropologist who examines our culture throug...
ARTworkSF - Mezzanine Gallery: Cosmic Forces at Play: Mixed media works by Blazin
Blazin continues, "Each image offers a glimpse into an abundantly alive, uncharted universe. It's common for me to combine oils, acrylics, wood, staples, metallic inks, pencils, wire, pastels, and skewers all in one piece. Whether paintings, dra...
Montreal Museum of Fine Art: Aluminum by Design: Jewellery to Jets
Aluminum's essential qualities of brilliance, strength, lightness, ductility, resistance to corrosion, and ease of recycling have provided an unparalleled medium for design and creative engineering. Aluminum by ...
Carnegie Museum of Art: First Exhibition to Explore Dynamic Impact of Aluminum on Design Tours to New York, Montréal, Miami, Detroit, and London.
This groundbreaking exhibition demonstrates how aluminum's essential qualities of brilliance, strength, light weight, ductility, corrosion resistance, and ease of recycling have provided an unparallele...
Art Tower Mito: Seeing, Wearing, Transcending - Two Centuries Moved by Fashion
Hanae Mori Exhibition: Meeting of the East and the West Fashion is a pioneering, adventurous art form whose essence is perpetually changing as it aspires toward beauty. The history of Japanese fashion, moreover, whose long tradition...
Oakland Museum of California: Iconic to Ironic: Fashioning California Identity
Iconic to Ironic: Fashioning California Identity examines how California fashion has been shaped by the entertainment industry as well as the state's cultural diversification and varied climates and geography. The exhibition is organized into five...
Auckland Art Galery: The Warhol Look: Glamour Fashion Style
Arguably the most influential artist of the second half of the 20th century, Warhol worked across many artistic fields - controversial pop artist, illustrator, photographer, film producer, publisher, costume designer and painter - he became a c...

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