Félix Trutat (27 February 1824 – 7 March 1848) was a French painter, known primarily for portraits and nudes.

Félix Trutat
Portrait of the Artist and His Mother
Portrait de l'artiste et de sa mère (1846)
Born(1824-02-27)27 February 1824
Dijon, France
Died7 March 1848(1848-03-07) (aged 24)
Dijon, France
Nude Girl on a Panther Skin (1844)

Life and work

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He studied with Léon Cogniet and Pierre-Paul Hamon [fr] at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He also absorbed stylistic influences from the Venetian Old Masters that he copied in the Louvre.[citation needed]

He died of tuberculosis at the age of twenty-four, with no known offspring.[citation needed]

Many of his works are reminiscent of Gustave Courbet. A majority of them are in the collection of the Musée des beaux-arts de Dijon; including his self-portrait. Among those on display elsewhere is a portrait of an unidentified woman at the Musée national Jean-Jacques Henner.[citation needed]

A street in Dijon has been named after him.[citation needed]

His cousin, Eugène Trutat, was a well known photographer and Director of the Muséum de Toulouse.

His first painting, Nude Girl on a Panther Skin, was used by John Berger to illustrate the concept of the male gaze in his groundbreaking work Ways of Seeing.[1][2] (Berger identified it within the book by an alternate title, Reclining Bacchante).[2]

References

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  1. ^ Lubbock, Tom (2011-10-23). "Through the looking-glass: John Berger's groundbreaking book Ways of Seeing". The Independent. Retrieved 2021-05-24.
  2. ^ a b Berger, John (2008-09-25). Ways of Seeing. Penguin Books Limited. ISBN 978-0-14-191798-6.

Further reading

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  • Madeleine Levinger, Félix Trutat (Monograph), Editions Rieder, 1932 Online
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