Quote of the day
It is no longer a question of a Christian going about to convert others to the faith, but of each one being ready to listen to the other and so to grow together in mutual understanding.
Thomas Couture
Born: December 21, 1815
Died: March 30, 1879 (aged 63)
Bio: Thomas Couture was an influential French history painter and teacher. He taught such later luminaries of the art world as Édouard Manet, Henri Fantin-Latour, John La Farge, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Karel Javůrek, and J-N Sylvestre.
Known for:
- Romans in the Decadence of the Empire (1847)
- Little Bather (1849)
- Horace and Lydia (1843)
- Nymph and Cupids (1860)
- Courtesan and her mother (1857)








