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Thomas Couture
(1815-79)
Couture, Thomas
(1815-79). French historical and portrait painter, a pupil of
Gros and
Delaroche.
He is chiefly remembered for his vast orgy picture
The Romans of the Decadence
(Musee d'Orsay, Paris),
which was the sensation of the Salon of 1847.
Like other one-picture painters', his reputation has sunk with that of
his big work, which now if often cited as the classic example of the worst
type of bombastic academic painting, impeccable in every detail and totally
false in overall effect. His more informal works, however, are often much
livelier in conception and technique, as as a teacher he encouraged direct
study from landscape.
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