Félix Trutat
Félix Trutat (27 February 1824 – 7 March 1848) was a French painter, known primarily for portraits and nudes.
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![]() Portrait of the Artist and His Mother Portrait de l'artiste et de sa mère (1846) | |
Born | Dijon, France | 27 February 1824
Died | 7 March 1848 24) Dijon, France | (aged
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Life and work
He studied with Léon Cogniet and Pierre-Paul Hamon at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He also absorbed stylistic influences from the Venetian Old Masters that he copied in the Louvre.
He died of tuberculosis at the age of twenty-four, with no known offspring.
Many of his works are reminiscent of Gustave Courbet. A majority of them are in the collection of the Musée des beaux-arts de Dijon; including his self-portrait. Among those on display elsewhere is a portrait of an unidentified woman at the Musée national Jean-Jacques Henner.
A street in Dijon has been named after him.
His cousin, Eugène Trutat, was a well known photographer and Director of the Muséum de Toulouse.
His first painting, Nude Girl on a Panther Skin, was used by John Berger to illustrate the concept of the male gaze in his groundbreaking work Ways of Seeing.[1][2] (Berger identified it within the book by an alternate title, Reclining Bacchante).[2]
References
- Lubbock, Tom (2011-10-23). "Through the looking-glass: John Berger's groundbreaking book Ways of Seeing". The Independent. Retrieved 2021-05-24.
- Berger, John (2008-09-25). Ways of Seeing. Penguin Books Limited. ISBN 978-0-14-191798-6.
Further reading
- Madeleine Levinger, Félix Trutat (Monograph), Editions Rieder, 1932 Online
External links
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- Works by Trutat @ the Base Joconde