PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN AT HER ATELIER. OIL ON CANVAS PAINTED 15TH MAY 1849. GUARANTEED AUTHENTIC BY A RENOWED FRENCH FINE ART CONSULTANCY BASED IN PARIS. THE WORK IS SIGNED LOWER RIGHT AND HAS BEEN RELINED BY A PROFESSIONAL RESTORER BASED IN PARIS 16TH. PAINTING PREVIOUSLY EXPOSED AT NEW YORK AND PARIS GALLERIES. VERY RARE ON THE MARKET. SIGNATURE : SIGNED AND DATED A. TOULMOUCHE 15TH MAY 1849. PROVENANCE : PRIVATE FRENCH COLLECTION PARIS 9TH. STYLE : ACADEMIC ART 19TH CENTURY. SIZE : 18.11x 21.65 INCHES (46x55cm). Auguste Toulmouche (September 21, 1829 October 16, 1890) was a French painter known for his luxurious portraits of Parisian women. Auguste Toulmouche was born in Nantes to Émile Toulmouche, a well-to-do broker, and Rose Sophie Mercier. He studied drawing and sculpture locally with the sculptor Amédée Ménard and painting with the portraitist Biron before moving to Paris in 1846 to study with the painter Charles Gleyre. He was said to be one of Gleyre’s favored students, and he exhibited his first paintings at the Paris Salon in 1848 when he was just 19. He exhibited again in 1849 and 1850, by which time he has begun to specialize in portraits. Toulmouche painted in an idealizing version of the dominant academic realist style, and his subjects were frequently Parisian women who belonged to the upper bourgeoisie. He was generally approved by critics, winning medals at the Paris Salon in 1852 and 1861, and he was made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor in 1870. During his heyday, his reputation was comparable to that of artists like Alfred Stevens and Carolus-Duran. However, with their emphasis on sumptuous clothing and richly furnished domestic interiors, his paintings were also dismissed by some critics as “elegant trifles”, and the writer Emile Zola referred somewhat dismissively to the “delicious dolls of Toulmouche”. Much of his work is still in private collections, but the Louvre, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, and the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nantes, hold examples of his work. The item “AUGUSTE TOULMOUCHE (1829-1890) SIGNED FRENCH OIL CANVAS WOMAN PORTRAIT AUTHENTIC” is in sale since Friday, August 7, 2020. This item is in the category “Art\Paintings”. The seller is “wil78yeah” and is located in Paris. This item can be shipped worldwide.
- Size: Medium (up to 36in.)
- Artist: Auguste Toulmouche
- Style: Academic Art
- Listed By: Artist
- Medium: Oil
- Date of Creation: Antique (Pre-1900)
- Year: 1849
- Features: on canvas
- Width (Inches): 18.1102
- Subject: Portrait
- Originality: Original
- Height (Inches): 21.6535
