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| Keywords: Thomas Couture - Lawyer Going to Court - Walters 371204.jpg A lawyer walks up a wind-blown street presumably in the artist's native town of Senlis in north-central France Although he specialized in allegorical paintings such as Daydreams Couture urged his pupils to select subjects drawn from contemporary life In this scene the choice of subject and the spontaneity of treatment recall the works of Honoré Daumier 1809-79 The painting also demonstrates the artist's use of exposed areas of white primed canvas to lend texture and immediacy to his technique ca 1860 Oil on canvas cm 38 46 2 ; Framed cm 68 1 76 2 13 97 accession number 37 1204 27675 Henry Walters Baltimore after 1909 mode of acquisition unknown The picture was formerly erroneously listed as coming from the Barbedienne Collection sold in Paris 1892 No record of the painting appears in the catalogues of William and Henry Walters published as late as 1909 Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters after 1909 Signature Left below windowsill T C From Ingres to Gauguin French Nineteenth Century Paintings Owned in Maryland Baltimore Museum of Art Baltimore 1951 Small Paintings from Famous Collections Taft Museum of Art Cincinatti 1981 Parallels and Precedents Baltimore's George A Lucas Collection Baltimore Museum of Art Baltimore 1995 Before Monet Landscape Painting in France and Impressionist Masters Highlights from The Walters Collection The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1998 Highlights from the Collection The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1998-2001 Triumph of French Painting Masterpieces from Ingres to Matisse Baltimore Museum of Art Baltimore; Philbrook Museum of Art Tulsa; Norton Museum of Art West Palm Beach; Royal Academy of Arts London; Albright-Knox Art Gallery Buffalo; Dayton Art Institute Dayton 2000-2002 A Magnificent Age Masterpieces from the Walters Art Museum Baltimore The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Kansas City; Mint Museum of Art Charlotte; The Walters Art Museum Baltimore 2002-2004 19th Century Masterpieces from the Walters Art Museum Santa Barbara Museum of Art Santa Barbara; Jack S Blanton Museum of Art Austin 2010-2011 place depicted city Senlis Walters Art Museum license 2D Thomas Couture 19th-century genre paintings Lawyers in art French paintings in the Walters Art Museum Turkeys in art 1860s paintings from France Village paintings | ||||
