Quote of the day
It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought. It is the opening of our mental pores, and the stimulus of marshaling our ideas in words, of setting them forth as gallantly and as graciously as we can.
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)








