Paul Désiré Trouillebert (1829 in

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, France – 28 June 1900 in Paris, France) was a famous French Barbizon School painter in the mid-nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries.

Life and career

Trouillebert is considered a

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, and a

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and

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from the French Barbizon School. He was a student of

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(1817–1908) and

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(1819–1901). He made his debut at the Salon of 1865, at the age of 36, and between 1865 and 1872, he exhibited at least one portrait at the Salon. By the 1860s, his interests were shifting towards landscape painting. At the Salon of 1869, he exhibited ''Au Bois Rossignolet,'' a landscape painting that was more aligned with his interest in landscapes and received critical acclaim for it. He went on to execute many landscapes that are very close to

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's late manner of painting. Indeed, the artist first came to public attention when one of his landscapes was sold to

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’s son as a work by Corot in a celebrated forgery incident. In order to increase the sale value of the work, Trouillebert's signature had been erased and replaced with Corot's signature. In reality, while Trouillebert's landscapes are very similar to Corot, they exhibit their own distinct style. Trouillebert never confined himself to any single genre. He was a skilled at portraits, landscapes, still-lifes and other subject matter. He was also interested in Orientalist themes and produced paintings of Eastern nudes. He painted a portrait of a half-nude young woman in an ancient Egyptian style of the

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. He called it ''Servante du harem'' (''The Harem Servant Girl''). In 1884, his painting of nudes, ''The Bathers'' was well received by the

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Bibliography

* Claude Marumo, Thomas Maier et Bernd Mullerschon, Paul Désiré Trouillebert (1831-1900), atalogue raisonné Stuttgart, 2004, 635 p., 1 200 ill. (ISBN 3935252021).

Selected works

* ''Cleopatra & the Dying Messenger'',

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, 1873. * ''Servante du harem'' (''The Harem Servant Girl''), 1874 * ''Femme en robe bleue rêvant''. Private collection * ''Chemin au bord du

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'', Galerie Gary-Roche * ''Deux lavanderies sous les bouleaux'', Van Ham Fine Art Auctions (Van Ham Kunstauktionen) * ''La Gardienne de Troupeau'', Frances Aronson Fine Art, LLC * ''Le Loir et la Flêche'', Stoppenbach & Delestre * ''Le Pêcheur et le Bateau'', Daphne Alazraki * ''Mme. Trouillebert'', The Darvish Collection, Inc. * ''Au Bord de La Loire à

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'' * ''Diana Chasseresse'' (''Diana the Huntress''), private collection. File:Trouillebert-servante du harem.jpg, ''The Harem Servant Girl'', 1874 File:Paul-Désiré Trouillebert - A quiet backwater.jpg, ''A quiet backwater'' (between 1883 and 1889),

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File:Trouillebert, Paul Desire - Bank of the Loire Near Chouze.jpg, ''Bank of the Loire Near Chouze'', 1893,

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References

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