Théodule Ribot

Augustin Ribot Théodule ( born August 8, 1823 in Saint- Nicolas- d'Attez, Eure, † September 11, 1891 in Colombes, Hauts -de- Seine) was a French painter.

Life

Ribot had two children, his son Germain Theodule Clement and his daughter Fontenai -aux -Roses Ribot, who were also his students. Ribot was history and genre painter, particularly the figures from the darkness very bright highlights, such as Jusepe de Ribera (1588-1656), and Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio ( 1573-1610 ). He cleverly uses strange lighting effects in its perfect painting a.

He was a student of Auguste Glaize (1807-1893) in Paris and was impressed by Jean Siméon Chardin. At the beginning he only painted kitchen designs and still life. In 1865 he started with the Saint Sebastian the history painting.

Most works are on display at the Musée Municipal in Colombes, otherwise scattered internationally through museums, galleries and private collections.

Major works

• L' Intérieur de cuisine (kitchen interior), Paris Salon in 1861, the Louvre
• La ravaudeuse ( The flickerin ), Louvre
• The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastien ( The Martyrdom of St. Sebastian ), 97 × 130 cm, 1865, auction 1879, Louvre
• Jesus among the Doctors, 255 × 180 cm, National Museum, Luxembourg
• In Burgundy, Vienna auction, 1869
• Le samaritain compatissant ( The Good Samaritan ), 112 × 145 cm, National Museum, Luxembourg, Paris Salon in 1870, Viennese auction in 1873, Stockholm
• Drama of Shakespeare with 3 people and two masks, 55 × 45 cm, 1928 Auction Paris, since 1982, Munich Private Collection
• Le Chasseur, 93 × 74 cm, Paris Bernheim- Jeune in 1887, Sotheby's in 1992
• Portrait de femmes de Bretonnes Plougastel, 92 × 73 cm, Collection Santmarina, Simon Pereyra Iraola
• Young shepherd, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere Vienna
• Conversation
• Old fisherman in Trouville, auction 1879
• La Recette, 1865, Marseille
• A Bed of Chrysanthemums, The Cook, Johnson Collection Philadelphia
• Le cuisinier comptable, 1862, Marseille
• The Ministrel
• Scène d' Interior, La Rochelle
• La charbonnière, Besançon
• La leçon de géographie, Evreux
• The Atelier
• Les Philosophes, Saint Omer
• Vieille dame, Boston
• Portrait de Femme, Lyon
• The beggar with daughter, Dresden auction 1889
• The old ship's captain auction 1891
• Vieille femme, Grenoble
• Les titres de famille, Reims
• Jeune cuisinier, Reims
• Scène de cuisine, Reims
• Le supplice d' Alonco Cano, Nice
• La musique de leçon, Chicago
• Tête de petite Paysanne, Geneva
• La fillette en gris, Petit Palais Paris
• Portrait d' homme, Petit Palais Paris
• The color-grinder, auction 1891
• In the shop the antique dealer, it is purchased from his estate one of the last Ribot painting of the city of Paris.

Literature sources

• Emmanuel Bénézit: Dictionnaire critique et documentaire of peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et de tous les temps graveurs et de tous les pays par un groupe d' ecrivains Specialistes francais et etrangers: Nouvelle edition entierement refondue, revue et corrigee sous la direction des tiers heri de E. Benezit. Paris 1976. Volume 8, pp. 727-728.
• Augustin Ribot Théodule. In: Ulrich Thieme, Felix Becker et al: General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present. Volume 28, E. A. Seemann, Leipzig 1934, p 238
• Boetticher, Friedrich von: Painter works of the nineteenth century: Beitr to art history. Dresden 1891 - 1901.