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Thomas Couture · 1856 vers
Thomas Couture: 1815–1879
Other names (7)
Couture, couture t., couture thomas, t. couture, th. couture, thos. couture, th.s couture
Biography
Thomas Couture (French pronunciation: [tɔma kutyʁ]; 21 December 1815 – 30 March 1879) was a French history painter and teacher. He taught many notable contemporary figures of the art world, such as Édouard Manet, Henri Fantin-Latour, John La Farge, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, John Ward Dunsmore, Karel Javůrek, William Morris Hunt, and Joseph-Noël Sylvestre.
Couture was born at Senlis, Oise, France. As a child, he sold a sketch for one hundred francs.
When he was 11 his family moved to Paris, where he would study at the industrial arts school (École des Arts et Métiers) and later at the École des Beaux-Arts.
He was a student of Baron Antoine Jean-Gros.
He failed the prestigious Prix de Rome competition at the École six times, but he felt the problem was with the École, not himself. Couture finally did win the prize in 1837.
In 1840 he began exhibiting historical and genre pictures at the Paris Salon, earning several medals for his works, in particular for his masterpiece, Romans During the Decadence (1847).
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- Ferdinand Fagerlineditorial inference
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- Edmond Eugène Valtoneditorial inference
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- William Morris Hunteditorial inference
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- Édouard Maneteditorial inference
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- Henri Fantin-Latoureditorial inference
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- Édouard Maneteditorial inference
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- Pierre Puvis de Chavanneseditorial inference
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- Manuel Ferran i Bayonaeditorial inference
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Museums & collections
Documented holdings of works attributed to Thomas Couture. Check the museum’s record for current display information.
- musée d'art et d'archéologie — Senlis40 recorded works
- musée national du château de Compiègne — Compiègne32 recorded works
- MUDO - musée de l'Oise — Beauvais18 recorded works
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art6 recorded works
- musée des beaux-arts — Bordeaux5 recorded works
- Musée des Beaux-Arts de la ville de Paris5 recorded works
- Musée d’Orsay4 recorded works
- Minneapolis Institute of Art3 recorded works
- Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen3 recorded works
- musée des beaux-arts — Rennes3 recorded works
- Musée du Louvre3 recorded works
- musée national Magnin — Dijon3 recorded works
- The Cleveland Museum of Art3 recorded works
- Walters Art Museum3 recorded works
- Art Institute of Chicago2 recorded works
- musée des Augustins — Toulouse2 recorded works
- musée des Beaux-Arts de Reims — Reims2 recorded works
- Finnish National Gallery1 recorded work
- musée Antoine Vivenel — Compiègne1 recorded work
- Musée Carnavalet1 recorded work
- musée des beaux-arts — Caen1 recorded work
- musée des beaux-arts et d'archéologie — Besançon1 recorded work
- musée des beaux-arts et d’archéologie — Troyes1 recorded work
- musée des beaux-arts — Lille1 recorded work
- musée des beaux-arts — Rouen1 recorded work
- musée des Beaux-Arts — Valenciennes1 recorded work
- musée des ursulines — Mâcon1 recorded work
- musée Grobet-Labadié — Marseille1 recorded work
- musée municipal — Châlons-en-Champagne1 recorded work
- National Gallery of Art1 recorded work
- Rijksmuseum1 recorded work
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- National Gallery of Art
- Museum authority country review
- Pantheon 2025 — Datawheel (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Museum authority country review
- Rijksmuseum: independently verified selected paintings
- musée des beaux-arts — Rouen
- musée d'Orsay — Paris
- musée d'art et d'archéologie — Senlis
- Pantheon 2025 — Datawheel (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Expanded artwork research — official museum evidence
- Pantheon 2025 — Datawheel (CC BY-SA 4.0)