Auguste Toulmouche Week at TechnoChitlins

Portrait of Auguste Toulmouche – Jean-Louis Hamon

Infogalactic:

Auguste Toulmouche (September 21, 1829 – October 16, 1890) was a French painter who painted in the academic realism style. This trend in art was towards realism but also towards greater idealism, which is contrary to realism. The figures depicted were made more abstract and idealized. His themes were in the Regency revival style of genre painting. This would involve both generalizing the forms seen in nature, and subordinating them to the unity and theme of the artwork.

He studied with Charles Gleyre and is known mainly for his portraits of Parisian women; Émile Zola spoke of “Toulmouche’s delicious dolls.”[1] He was made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour.

Pretty Ladies all in a row. Paris in the latter part of the 19th century was obviously a lovely place to be!

Meeting of the Minds

Mikhail Nesterov – The Philosophers: Portrait of Sergei Bulgakov and Pavel Florenskiy – 1917

Mikhail Nesterov – The Philosophers: Portrait of Sergei Bulgakov and Pavel Florenskiy – 1917

Absorbed

Mikhail Nesterov – Portrait of Natasha Nestarova (On a Garden Bench) – 1914

Mikhail Nesterov – Portrait of Natasha Nestarova (On a Garden Bench) – 1914