Paul Desire Trouillebert (Kunst)

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Born in Paris in 1829, Trouillebert began his artistic training in the studio of Auguste-Antoine-Ernest Hebert (1817-1908), an artist, whose oeuvre encompassed diverse subject matter, ranging from portraits to mythology to landscapes of the Rome
•Chateau Museum, Dieppe, France
•Cleveland Museum of Art, OH
•Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
•Hickory Museum of Art, NC
•Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC
•Musee de Mulhouse
•Musee de Nice
•Musee de Reichenberg
•Musee de Reims
•Musee de Saume
•Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nice, France
•Musée d’Orsay Collection Database, Paris
•Musee Le Puy
•Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina
•National Gallery of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia
•Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, CA
•Palais Fesch Musée des Beaux-Arts, Ajaccio, France
•The Walters Art Museum, MD
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Trouillebert debuted at the Paris Salon of 1865 with Portrait de Mlle A and at every Salon from 1865 to 1872 exhibiting at least one portrait, despite the fact that his interest had shifted primarily to landscape painting. The artist’s reputation is based upon his landscape paintings, and his likened style to that of Jean-Baptise-Camille Corot which linked him closely to the other artists of the Barbizon School.



Trouillebert was much more than a landscape artist. His occasional forays into the world of Orientalism are remarkable, and his ability in rendering the nude female form is often overlooked. In fact, his most well-received composition was Les Bainneuses; his entry in the 1882 Salon was a resounding success which helped solidify his reputation as an important landscape painter. Henri Loyette wrote, ‘Trouillebert was mostly known for his landscapes in the manner of Corot, that he repeated countless times during his entire life. These works make one forget that this student of Hébert could be an original painter, as proven by L’Orientale’ (H. Loyette, ’Acquistions, ’Revue de Louvre, vol.42, October 1992, p.71).

Geographically, his range was extensive, including views of the Seine, Loire, Brittany, the Charantes and La Rochelle. Trouillebert was a popular, prolific and highly regarded artist in his lifetime, an indication of his reputation being that Edgar Degas was a collector and owner of Bords de la Seine.

Trouillebert was widely collected in his lifetime and has been throughout the 20th Century with his works residing in many world museums and private collections including industrialist Andrew Carnegie.

“The greatest merit of Trouillebert is to be a complete painter; never confined himself to a genre: he was also just as skillful at bringing to life the flesh of a woman as painting bright and hazy landscapes, of the banks of the Loire or Oise with the soft aspects of the trees, of spring mornings, of portraits or of still life of a true realism. His oeuvre, which was considerable, conserves a tonality that is its own, an incontestable originality and strong personality which assures him one of the greatest places among contemporary landscape painters.”

(Edward-Joseph, Dictionnaire biographique des-artists contemporains: 1910-1930, Paris, Librarie Gund, 1934, pp. 353-354).