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THOMAS COUTURE Étude de paysage, Villiers-le-Bel, près de Paris.
Pencil on wove paper, circa 1865. 215x265 mm; 9¾x10½ inches.
Provenance: Estate of the artist, Villiers-le-Bel; private collection, New York.
M. Thierry Cazau, Paris, has confirmed the authenticity of the current drawing.
Couture (1815-1879) was a prominent 19th century French history painter, portraitist and landscape artist. He is also well-known as a teacher, with students that included such future artistic luminaries as Édouard Manet, Henri Fantin-Latour, John La Farge, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, and William Morris Hunt. Couture had an active studio in Paris during the 1840s-50s and began exhibiting at the Paris Salon in 1840. He left Paris in 1860 for his hometown of Senlis, where he continued to teach art students who came to him, and died in Villiers-le-Bel, on the northern outskirts of Paris.
