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    The Bird Catcher
    Thomas Couture. The Bird Catcher, c. 1857. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00000976

    The Bird Catcher

    by Thomas Couture

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    Inscriptions

    Inscribed left, on lower wall: T.C.

    Provenance

    William Tilden Blodgett (1823-1875), New York [according to Registrar's accession card]. Julius Weitzner, New York, by 1935 [lent to Springfield 1935] and until at least 1936 [lent to San Francisco 1936]. André Seligmann, New York by 1942; sold to the Art Institute, 1942.

    Exhibition history

    New York, Metropolitan Museum, c. 1890. Springfield, Mass., Springfield Museum of Fine Arts, From David to Cézanne: Paintings and Drawings, February 9 - March 10, 1935, cat. 6. Pittsfield, Mass., Berkshire Museum, 1935. San Francisco Museum of Art, Survey of Landscape Painting, 2-30 June 1936, cat. 22. College Park, University of Maryland Art Gallery, Thomas Couture: Paintings and Drawings in American Collections, February 5 - March 15, 1970, cat. 31 (ill.). Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, November 1, 1981 - February 28, 1982 and Toledo, March - April, 1982.

    Publications

    Bertauts-Couture, “Thomas Couture, sa technique et son influence sur la peinture française de la second moitie du XIX siècle,” Etudes d’Art 11-12 (1955-1956), p. 203. The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago, 1961), p. 108. Jerome Willard Howe, “Thomas Couture: His Career and Artistic Development,” master thesis (University of Chicago, 1951), no. 117. Alain de Leixis, “Thomas Couture the Painter,” in Thomas Couture Paintings and Drawings in American Collections exhib. cat. (University of Maryland Art Gallery, 1970), pp. 21, 49, no. 31, p. 59. Albert Boime, Thomas Couture and the Eclectic Vision (New Haven, 1980), pp. 387-391, pl. IX.128.

    Open-access museum data

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    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Thomas Couture (French, 1815–1879)
    Date
    c. 1857
    Medium
    Oil on canvas
    Dimensions
    40.8 × 59.6 cm (16 × 23 1/2 in.); Framed: 55.6 × 74.3 × 8 cm (21 7/8 × 29 1/4 × 3 1/8 in.)
    Type
    Painting
    Classification
    oil on canvas
    Style
    19th century
    Place
    France
    Department
    Painting and Sculpture of Europe
    Credit line
    Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Larned Coburn Memorial Collection
    Accession no.
    1942.49

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