Quote of the day
To be stupid, and selfish, and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, the others are useless.
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)








