
Objects on Wall, study for Couture, The Bird-Catcher
Gift of Marianne Feilchenfeldt
Catalogue
- Year
- 1852
- Dimensions
- 32.3 × 45.7 cm (12 3/4 × 18 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Thomas Couture
Artist

Painting
Thomas Couture 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.
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More by Thomas Couture
Interior of a Church
1877 · Black chalk, heightened with white
Soap Bubbles
1859 · Oil on canvas
Study for the decoration of the ceiling of the Opéra Comique
1852 · Black chalk on blue paper mounted on cardboard
The Bird Catcher
1852 · Oil on canvas
The Supper after the Masked Ball
1850 · Woodcut with painted and stenciled additions on tan wove paper, laid down on fabric, and stretched on a wooden stretcher
Study for “The Enrollment of the Volunteers of 1792”
1848 · Fabricated black chalk
Record
Verified by WattsOS- Artist
- Thomas Couture
- Year
- 1852
- Dimensions
- 32.3 × 45.7 cm (12 3/4 × 18 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1852-320034
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified





