Thomas Couture

Thomas Couture
Étienne Carjat, Public domain

(1815–1879) fransk målare

Thomas Couture (France, 1815–1879) is listed in the catalogue as a painter. By year of birth, Thomas Couture belongs to the chapter ‘Realism’ in this site’s history of art.

Thomas Couture was born in Senlis and died in Villiers-le-Bel. Thomas Couture trained at Arts et Métiers ParisTech and Beaux-Arts de Paris. The teachers included Antoine-Jean Gros and Paul Delaroche. Wikidata associates Thomas Couture with academic art. The awards include Second Great Prize of Rome and Knight of the Legion of Honour. The students included Édouard Manet, François-Alfred Delobbe, Hippolyte Ribbrol, and Henri Fantin-Latour.

One of the best-known works is ‘The Romans of the Decadence’. The works belong mainly to the genre history painting. The catalogue has 90 works by Thomas Couture with free images. The dated works span the years 1840–1877. Works by Thomas Couture are held by several collections, among them Nationalmuseum, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Musée départemental de l'Oise, and Wallace Collection. Wikidata links 2 works to movements covered in the chapter ‘Realism’.

Contemporary artists in the same chapter include Isidore Pils, Domenico Induno, Alfred Elmore, Hans Jørgen Hammer, and Henri Félix Emmanuel Philippoteaux.