Quote of the day
Our passions are most like to floods and streams;
The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.
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)