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Thomas Couture

[French Academic Painter, 1815-1879]

• Relationships: Studied under Antoine-Jean Gros and Paul Delaroche.
Couture's many students included Maria Oakey Dewing, George P.A. Healy, William Morris Hunt, John Whetten Ehninger and Elizabeth Duveneck.
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Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries:
Art Institute of Chicago Collection Database
The Bird-Catcher

Thomas Couture at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
5 works by Thomas Couture

Fitzwilliam Museum at the University of Cambridge, UK
A girl's head

Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
The Little Bather, 1849

Thomas Couture in the Louvre Museum Database, Paris (only available in French)
3 paintings

Thomas Couture at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City  
Soap Bubbles

Musee d'Art Roger-Quilliot, Clermont-Ferrand, France (mostly in French)  
Baudelaire et la présidente (Zoom)

Musée d'Orsay, Paris
Commentary on Romans during the Decadence

Musée d'Orsay Collection Database, Paris
Many works by Thomas Couture online

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston  
Paintings collection online

Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California

Réunion des Musées Nationaux, France (in French)  
Jules Michelet, historien
Le Baptême du Prince impérial
, 1856

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam   NEW!
Great scans of Rijksmuseum paintings, from the 'Memory of the Netherlands' project

Rijksmuseum Research Database, Amsterdam (in Dutch)  

Art Fund for UK Museums

Brooklyn Museum, New York City   NEW!

Canton Museum of Art, Ohio
The Roman Decadence (replica)

Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
A Volunteer of 1792
Pierrot in Criminal Court


Dahesh Museum, New York City (Zoomable)
Portrait of a Man

Finnish National Gallery Art Collections, Helsinki, Finland   NEW!

Flemish Art Collection Database, Belgium (in Dutch)  

Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts

Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French)  

Joslyn Art Museum, Nebraska
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Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York
Portrait of the Artist

Musée des Augustins, Toulouse, France
La Soif de L'Or, 1844

Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux, France (in French)  

Musee Magnin, Dijon, France   NEW!

Philadelphia Museum of Art
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3 works by Thomas Couture online

The Essence of Line: French Drawings from Ingres to Degas

The Wallace Collection, London, UK

The Walters Art Museum, Maryland   NEW!

Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
A Realist, 1865

Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal, Germany (in German)  

 
Pictures from Image Archives:
Thomas Couture in the Art Renewal Center

Thomas Couture at CGFA  

Thomas Couture in the Web Gallery of Art  

Thomas Couture in the WebMuseum  

Wikimedia Commons Image Database  

World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)

Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)  
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Boston College Fine Arts Department

California State University WorldImages Database  

Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)  

Thomas Couture at The Athenaeum  
Tzigane

University of Michigan SILS Art Image Browser

USC Annenberg School for Communication

 
Articles:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Thomas Couture
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Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.

Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Biographical info

  
 
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The Romans of the Decadence (detail)
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Damocles, 1866
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The Romans of the Decadence, 1847
The Romans of the Decadence, 1847

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