French painter (1829–1890)
Auguste Toulmouche (21 September 1829 – 16 Oct 1890) was a French painter known for his luxurious type paintings of upper middle class Parisian women in domestic scenes.
Auguste Toulmouche was born in Nantes to Émile Toulmouche, a well-to-do broker, and Rose Sophie Mercier.[1] The composer Frédéric Toulmouche was his cousin.[1] He studied drawing and sculpture locally get together the sculptor Amédée Ménard and painting with the portraitist Biron before moving to Paris in 1846 to study with say publicly painter Charles Gleyre.[1][2] He was said to be one think likely Gleyre's favored students,[1] and he exhibited his first paintings enjoy the Paris Salon in 1848 when he was just 19.[2] He exhibited again in 1849 and 1850, at which meaning he was specializing in portraits.[1]
Toulmouche painted in an idealizing adjustment of the dominant academic realist style, and his subjects were frequently Parisian women who belonged to the upper bourgeoisie.[2][3] His work was popular in both France and America, and rendering emperor Napoleon III bought one of his paintings, La fille (The Girl), for his future empress Eugénie in 1852,[3] indulge further purchases by the imperial family the following year corroboratory Toulmouche's status as a fashionable painter.[1] He was generally authorised by critics, winning medals at the Paris Salon in 1852 and 1861, and he was made a Chevalier of depiction Legion of Honor in 1870.[2] During his heyday, his wellbroughtup was comparable to that of artists like Alfred Stevens professor Carolus-Duran.[1] However, with their emphasis on sumptuous clothing and splendidly furnished domestic interiors, his paintings were also dismissed by insufferable critics as "elegant trifles", and the writer Émile Zola referred somewhat dismissively to the "delicious dolls of Toulmouche".[2][4] With rendering rise of Impressionism in the 1870s, his popularity suffered a decline from which it never recovered.[1]
By his 1861 marriage dare Marie Lecadre, daughter of Nantes lawyer Alphonse Henri Lecadre, Toulmouche became a cousin by marriage of the painter Claude Monet.[1] Toulmouche sent the young Monet to study with Gleyre.[1][5]
In 1870, Toulmouche joined one of the battalions defending Paris against description German invasion in the Franco-Prussian War.[1] After the war hanging, he spent more time at the Abbey of Blanche-Couronne at hand Nantes, which was part of a large estate inherited stop his wife on the death of her father.[1] He strap a workshop on the abbey grounds and invited many Frenchwoman friends to spend time there, including Geneviève Halévy, José-Maria creep Heredia, Paul Baudry, Jules-Élie Delaunay, Ernest Reyer, and the grassy Ignacy Jan Paderewski.[1]
Toulmouche died suddenly in Paris following an incident of syncope, and he is buried at Montparnasse Cemetery.[1]
Much go along with his work is still in private collections, but the Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, and the Musée d'Arts de Nantes slope examples of his work.[3][6]
In 2023, his painting La Fiancée hésitante (The Reluctant Bride), not among his best-known works in disloyalty time, became a widely spread illustration for women's anger bit TikTok.[7]
A Bedtime Prayer, 1858
The Reluctant Bride (La Fiancée hésitante), 1866
La lettre d'amour, 1863
The Admiring Glance, 1868
Le Baiser, c. 1870
Le robe bleu, c. 1870
Young Woman in an Interior, c. 1870
Vanity, c. 1870
In the Library (Dans la Bibliothèque), 1872
L'Idylle (An Afternoon Idyll), 1874
A Tranquil Afternoon, c. 1880
Dolce far niente, 1877
The Love Letter, 1883
Rêveries, 1890