Auguste Toulmouche

Auguste Toulmouche ( born September 21, 1829 in Nantes, † October 16th 1890 in Paris) was a French genre painter.

Life

Auguste Toulmouche was a son of Émile Toulmouche and his wife Rose Sophie, born Mercier. Little is known about his childhood and youth. He lived with his parents and his four- year-older brother Émile at the address 12 bis, rue de La Fosse in Nantes, before the family moved into a new home that had the address 33, rue de la Bastille.

Had an uncle named René Auguste Toulmouche who was a sculptor and possibly gave him first suggestions. Toulmouche was formed in Nantes in 1841 with René Ménard Amédée and later with a portrait painter named Biron. In 1846 he moved to Paris and studied with Charles Gleyre. 1852 La Jeune Fille his painting was accepted in Salon, received an award and was built by Emperor Napoleon III. purchased. The following year, Empress Eugénie bought another painting Toulmouches. Topic of this image was the first step of a toddler. Toulmouche specialized in such representations in the home with mothers and children or with young girls who were well received among customers. It further at the Salon and received a medal again in 1861.

In 1862 he married Marie Lecadre, a relative by Claude Monet. At this time, just a mentor for the young Claude Monet was sought who should accompany its study in Paris, Toulmouche has delegated that task. He led a Monet at Gleyre, whose academic style, however, this will not ever promised. However, over Gleyre Monet learned impressionists such as Pierre- Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley and Frédéric Bazille know, where he soon joined closely.

Toulmouche, the 1870 Knight of the Legion of Honour, his academic style remained loyal, but seem certain links between his later works, such as from 1870, and those of Monet to exist. Toulmouches colors brightened under Monet's influence; his afternoon idyll of 1874 has Japanese elements and Monet's Portrait of Camille La Japonaise Doncieux as of 1875 /76 the " délicieuses poupées de Toulmouche " as Zola called them, not entirely dissimilar. Toulmouche left Paris in 1871 and moved with his wife to the Abbaye Notre- Dame de Blanche- Couronne, which soon became the meeting place of many artists.

His paintings were sought after by the French as well as in American collectors; In 1877 he was listed in an article on French art in Harper's New Monthly Magazine. 1878 one of his paintings was honored at the World Exhibition in Paris with a third prize. Nevertheless, his genre paintings gradually went out of fashion. Maybe got Toulmouche into financial difficulties because he sold in 1877, his collection of antiques and figurines. In 1890, he died only two years after his father, in his apartment in the rue Victor Massé in Paris.

Toulmouches works are in the Louvre, the Musée des Beaux -Arts in Nantes, at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts.