Thomas Couture was a 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, John Ward Dunsmore, Karel Javůrek, William Morris Hunt, and Joseph-Noël Sylvestre.
Thomas Couture, self-portrait
The grave of Thomas Couture, Pere Lachaise Cemetery, Paris
Photographic portrait, by Étienne Carjat, ca.1860
The Romans in their Decadence (1847)
Édouard Manet was a French modernist painter. He was one of the first 19th-century artists to paint modern life, as well as a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism.
Manet in 1866 or 1867
Image: Manet, Edouard 05 1832 1883 Signature
Manet's portrait painted by Henri Fantin-Latour
Music in the Tuileries, 1862