Gustave-Claude-Etienne Courtois

Gustave-Claude-Étienne Courtois, also known as Gustave Courtois (French: [kuʁtwa]; 18 May 1852 in Pusey, Haute-Saône – 23 November 1923 in Neuilly-sur-Seine)[1] was a French painter, a representative of the academic style of art.

Gustave Courtois in his studio (Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret, 1880)

Life
Gustave Courtois, Madame Gautreau, 1891 (compare to John Singer Sargent's 1884 Portrait of Madame X)

Courtois was born 18 May 1852 in Pusey, Haute-Saône, France to an unwed mother who was devoted to him. Early in life, Courtois revealed an interest in art and entered the École municipale de dessin in Vesoul (Franche-Comté). His drawings were shown to Jean-Léon Gérôme, and in 1869, Gérôme encouraged Courtois to enter the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Through his life, Courtois was in close friendship with fellow student Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret, together with whom he maintained a fashionable studio in Neuilly-sur-Seine from the 1880s.[2]

He taught painting at Académie de la Grande Chaumière, Académie Colarossi, Paris,[3] where Harriet Campbell Foss,[4] Georges d'Espagnat,[5] Eva Bonnier, Emma Cheves Wilkins, and Dora Hitz were students.

Courtois exhibited at the Salon de Paris, receiving a third-place medal in 1878 and a second-place medal in 1880. He was awarded a gold medal at the Exposition Universelle in 1889 and exhibited at the Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts from 1911 to 1914.

His paintings can be seen in the art galleries of Besançon, Marseille, Bordeaux, and Luxembourg. He was a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor. Among his students were Willard Dryden Paddock, Mary Rose Hill Burton, and Sara Page.

Young Florentin Playing with Cats

References
  1. [http://consultation.archives.hauts-de-seine.net/mdr/index.php/docnumViewer/calculHierarchieDocNum/705218/367506:396213:412162:412165:705218/864/1536 Archives des Hauts de Seine, commune de Neuilly-sur-Seine, acte de décès #610.
  2. "Underpaintings: January 2009". Underpaintings.blogspot.com. 2009-01-17. Retrieved 2010-08-23.
  3. T. F. Simon. "Académie Colarossi in Paris". Tfsimon.com. Retrieved 2010-08-23.
  4. Eleanor Tufts; National Museum of Women in the Arts (U.S.); International Exhibitions Foundation (1987). American women artists, 1830–1930. International Exhibitions Foundation for the National Museum of Women in the Arts. ISBN 978-0-940979-01-7.
  5. Catherine Renoir. "Georges d'Espagnat-Renoir Fine Art". Renoirinc.com. Archived from the original on 2010-11-30. Retrieved 2010-08-23.

Sources
  • Robert Fernier. Gustave Courtois: 1852-1923, 1943.
  • Gabriel P. Weisberg. Against the Modern: Dagnan-Bouveret and the Transformation of the Academic Tradition, 2002.
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