Paul Trouillebert

Paul Trouillebert
Paul Trouillebert, circa 1895
Born
Paul Désiré Trouillebert

1831 (1831)
Paris, France
Died28 June 1900(1900-06-28) (aged 68–69)
Ebenda
EducationErnest Hébert and Charles Jalabert
Known forPainter, draughtsman, sculptor and print-maker
MovementOrientalist; Genre painter; Barbizon school

Paul Désiré Trouillebert (1829 in Paris, France – 28 June 1900 in Paris, France) was a prominent French Barbizon School painter of the mid to late nineteenth century, with works in a wide range of museums and public collections, including the Musée d'Orsay[1], the Hermitage Museum[2], and The Metropolitan Museum of Art[3]

Life and career

Trouillebert is considered a portrait, and a genre and landscape painter from the French Barbizon School. He was a student of Ernest Hébert (1817–1908) and Charles Jalabert (1819–1901). He made his debut at the Salon of 1865, at the age of 36, and between 1865 and 1872, he exhibited at least one portrait at the Salon.

By the 1860s, his interests were shifting towards landscape painting. At the Salon of 1869, he exhibited Au Bois Rossignolet, a landscape painting that was more aligned with his interest in landscapes and received critical acclaim for it[4]. He went on to execute many landscapes that are very close to Corot's late manner of painting.[5] Indeed, the artist received added attention when one of his landscapes was sold to Alexandre Dumas’s son as a work by Corot in a celebrated forgery incident.[6] In order to increase the sale value of the work, Trouillebert's signature had been erased and replaced with Corot's signature.[7] In reality, while Trouillebert's landscapes are very similar to Corot, they exhibit their own distinct style.

Trouillebert never confined himself to any single genre. He was a skilled at portraits, landscapes, still-lifes and other subject matter.[8] He was also interested in Orientalist themes and produced paintings of Eastern nudes. He painted a portrait of a half-nude young woman in an ancient Egyptian style of the Greco-Roman Dynasty. He called it Servante du harem (The Harem Servant Girl), now in the collection of the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nice. In 1884, his painting of nudes, The Bathers was well received by the Paris Salon.

Prior to his death, Trouillebert pre-arranged a posthumous exhibition and sale of a collection of his works that were still in his possession, which took place in 1901 at the Galerie des Artistes Modernes, Paris, from March 18-30[9]. The artist's friend Charles Chincholle wrote a forward to the catalogue, in which he noted the artist's habit of retaining some works for his own collection and sometimes making additional, personal versions of pictures to keep for himself:

'"What should matter to a painter," he often said, "is to paint." And, when he had painted more than the canvas intended for his friend, he would hasten to back, like an old collector, to hide in a drawer where he had no access, the second painting of which he was particularly fond.'[9]

The French art historian René Édouard-Joseph, in his Dictionnaire Biographique des Artistes Contemporains: 1910-1930, summed up Trouillebert's legacy:

'The greatest merit of Trouillebert is to be a complete painter; he never confined himself to a genre: he was also just as skillful at bringing to life the flesh of a women as painting bright and hazy landscapes, of the banks of the Loire or the Oise with the soft aspects of the trees, of spring mornings, of portraits or of still lifes of a true realism. His oeuvre which was considerable, conserves a tonality that is its own, an incontestable originality and a strong personality which differentiates it from Corot…and which assures him one of the greatest places, even if it isn’t the first among the contemporary landscape painters.'[10]

Bibliography

  • Claude Marumo, Thomas Maier et Bernd Mullerschon, Paul Désiré Trouillebert (1831-1900), [catalogue raisonné], Stuttgart, 2004, 635 p., 1 200 ill. (ISBN 3-935252-02-1).[11]

Selected works

  • A Pond near Nangis, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1880-95[12]
  • Bank of the Loire Near Chouze, Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, 1893[13].
  • Les Travaux de relèvement du chemin de fer de ceinture, le pont de la rue de la Voûte, Musée d'Orsay, Paris, 1888[14].
  • Cleopatra & the Dying Messenger, Lightner Museum, St. Augustine, Florida, 1873.
  • Servante du harem (The Harem Servant Girl), Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nice, 1874
  • Femme en robe bleue rêvant. Private collection
  • Chemin au bord du lac de Nantua, Galerie Gary-Roche
  • Deux lavanderies sous les bouleaux, Van Ham Fine Art Auctions (Van Ham Kunstauktionen)
  • La Gardienne de Troupeau, Frances Aronson Fine Art, LLC
  • Le Loir et la Flêche, Stoppenbach & Delestre
  • Le Pêcheur et le Bateau, Daphne Alazraki
  • Mme. Trouillebert, The Darvish Collection, Inc.
  • Au Bord de La Loire à Montsoreau
  • Diana Chasseresse (Diana the Huntress), private collection.
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References

  1. ^ "File:Les Travaux de relèvement du chemin de fer de ceinture, le pont de la rue de la Voûte.jpg - Wikimedia Commons". Archived from the original on 2025-01-20. Retrieved 2025-12-15.
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  3. ^ https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/459122
  4. ^ "Explication des ouvrages de peinture et dessins, sculpture, architecture et gravure, des artistes vivans". Paris. December 16, 1673 – via Internet Archive.
  5. ^ Bury, A., "In the Galleries," Connoisseur, Vol. 161, 1966, p. 256
  6. ^ "Paul Trouillebert", Biographical Notes, REHS Galleries
  7. ^ Spencer, R.D., The Expert Versus the Object: Judging Fakes and False Attributions in the Visual Arts, Oxford University Press, 2004, [E-Book edition]
  8. ^ Édouard-Joseph, Dictionnaire Biographique des Artistes Contemporains: 1910-1930, Paris:, Libraire Grund, 1934, pp 353-354
  9. ^ a b "Tableaux Par Feu Trouillebert" (PDF). wikimedia.org.
  10. ^ Édouard-Joseph, Dictionnaire Biographique des Artistes Contemporains: 1910-1930 (Paris: Libraire Grund, 1934, pg. 353-354)
  11. ^ Marumo, Claude; Maier, Thomas; Müllerschön, Bernd (2004). Paul Désiré Trouillebert 1831-1900 : catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint. Stuttgart: Edition Thombe. ISBN 978-3-935252-02-7.
  12. ^ https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/459122
  13. ^ "File:Trouillebert, Paul Desire - Bank of the Loire Near Chouze". commons.wikimedia.org.
  14. ^ "File:Les Travaux de relèvement du chemin de fer de ceinture, le pont de la rue de la Voûte.jpg - Wikimedia Commons". Archived from the original on 2025-01-20. Retrieved 2025-12-15.
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