Project Description

Trouillebert Paul Désiré portrait of a woman with a lace collar 1897

Huile sur toile

Dimensions : 70 cm x 65 cm

Signée Trouillebert et datée 1897

autographed top left to Jean-Bernard

Paul Désiré Trouillebert

(Paris 1829-Paris 1900)

Work present in the catalog raisonné of the painted works of Paul Désiré Trouillebert (Claude Marumo, Thomas Maier, Bernd Muellerschoen), figure n° 27, page 216.

Extract from the catalog ” Trouillebert mainly devoted himself to portrait painting in the years 1860 and 1870. Until the end of his life, he never completely abandons her. From the mid-years 1890, he certainly no longer executes portraits but by the precision of the physiognomy, they are among the best works that Trouillebert has produced in this field.”

Paul-Désiré Trouillebert was born in 1829 in Paris.

He is one of the greatest open-air landscape painters of the French 19th century.. Landscape painting represents more than half of his painted work. He also made portraits, nudes, still lifes as well as genre scenes.

Barbizon school

Although Trouillebert was not part of the Barbizon school as such and painted independently, he can be linked to it for his predilection for the landscape motif as well as his style influenced by Corot, founder of this school.
From 1855, on the death of his father, Trouillebert decides to devote himself fully to his passion : the painting.
He trained with the renowned portrait painter Ernest Hébert (1817-1908), as well as in the studio of Charles-François Jalabert (1819-1901).
It is first for his portraits and his nudes that Trouillebert is noticed : the portrait of Mademoiselle A. allowed him to be accepted at the Salon des Artistes Français in 1865, where he will exhibit until 1884.

His travels in France

Trouillebert traveled a lot in France, especially in Brittany, in the Sarthe, Limousin, the Loire and on the banks of the Seine. The artist also had a passion for fishing : which explains the place of choice occupied by this subject in his works but also his remarkable way of transcribing on the canvas the light and its effects on the landscape at different times of the day..

His work in situ

Trouillebert is part of the movement of traditionalist outdoor painters, as he asserts in an interview with a journalist from Litter from Paris, in 1890 : “I only work from nature, I do not accept the study copied in the workshop. »

Musées : Paris, Musée d'Orsay – Paris, Petit Palais -New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art – Baltimore, Walters Art Museum – Cleveland, Museum of Art – Saint PETERSBOURG, Hermitage Museum- Valparaiso, Fine Arts Museum

Bibliography : « Paul Desire Trouillebert (1829-1900) Claude Marumo par, Thomas Maier et Bend Müllerschon.

A work by the artist purchased at auction by the Château de Chenonceau

Another portrait work is offered to you by the Gallery