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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:
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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   NEW!
Commentary on Romans during the Decadence

Musée d'Orsay Collection Database, Paris   NEW!
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)  
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Jules Michelet, historien
Le Baptême du Prince impérial
, 1856

Rijksmuseum Research Database, Amsterdam (in Dutch)  

Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York
Portrait of the Artist

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)   NEW!
Portrait of a Man

Flemish Art Collection Database (in Dutch)  

Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts   NEW!

Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French)  

Joslyn Art Museum, Nebraska
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Musée des Augustins, Toulouse, France
La Soif de L'Or, 1844

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

Museum of the Rhode Island School of Design
Romans of the Decadence (image 26)

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
5 paintings online

Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
A Realist, 1865

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

 
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Thomas Couture at The Athenaeum  
Tzigane

Thomas Couture in the Web Gallery of Art  

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Wikimedia Commons Image Database  

Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)  

Boston College Fine Arts Department

California State University WorldImages Database  

Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)  

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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Damocles, 1866
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The Romans of the Decadence, 1847
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