
Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Bequest of Catharine Lorillard Wolfe, 1887
Catalogue
- Year
- 1859
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 51 1/2 x 38 5/8 in. (130.8 x 98.1 cm)
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- 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
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
Objects on Wall, study for Couture, The Bird-Catcher
1852 · Black chalk, heightened with white chalk, on blue laid paper
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
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- Thomas Couture
- Year
- 1859
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 51 1/2 x 38 5/8 in. (130.8 x 98.1 cm)
- Watts ID
- WW-1859-320035
Source
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Source
- met
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified





