PAUL-DÉSIRÉ TROUILLEBERT

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 Born in 1829 in Paris and died in 1900 in the same city, Paul-Désiré Trouillebert was a French painter. He learned painting at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and was particularly introduced to oil painting on canvas or panel. He trained in particular with the portrait painter Ernest Hébert and joined the studio of Charles-François Jalabert, a renowned portrait painter. Attached to the Barbizon School, Trouillebert painted in particular outdoors and studied from nature.

He also worked in his studios in Paris or Candes or on his boat-studio which allowed him to travel on the rivers between Saint-Germain-sur-Vienne, Montsoreau and Candes. His production focuses on the rural landscapes he encounters around the Vienne, the Oise, the Loire but also the Somme. He paid great attention to trees, animals, but also to the crops in the surrounding fields and waterways, which formed the heart of his work. At the beginning, he painted nudes and genre scenes for which he was noted. His very luminous compositions are marked by the great place given to water, the sky and the atmospheric effects that impact the landscape. Skillfully constructed, his landscapes exploit transparency effects, particularly characteristic of his work, which give the motifs a certain agitation. A particularly talented landscape artist, Paul-Désiré Trouillebert met with real success among his contemporaries.

From the 1860s, he presented his paintings in various important Salons, such as the Salon des Artistes Français, but also at major French art dealers. His style was particularly appreciated for its combination of precision and lightness, its vaporous aspects and the great attention paid to the transcription of light effects on the landscape during the day. His style is particularly close to that of his contemporary and friend, the landscape artist Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot.

MUSEUMS

Germany, Saarbrücken, Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken (de): L'île des Rosiers in Maine-et-Loire.

Argentina, Buenos Aires, National Museum of Fine Arts: Château de Chenonceau.

Belgium, Brussels, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium: Portrait of a Man, oil on canvas.

United States, Baltimore, Walters Art Museum: Landscape.

Russia, Saint Petersburg, Hermitage Museum: Bank of the Loire near Chouzé, 1883, oil on canvas.

France

Ajaccio, Fesch Museum: Le Bouquet de violettes, oil on canvas.

Dijon, Dijon Museum of Fine Arts, La Barque, oil on canvas, 66 × 82 cm.

Cambrai, Cambrai Museum: Banks of the Loire, oil on canvas.

Nice, Museum of Fine Arts: La Servante du harem, 1874, oil on canvas.

Paris, Musée d'Orsay: The works of raising the belt railway, the bridge of the rue de la Voûte, oil on canvas.

Reims, Museum of Fine Arts: The Bather, oil on wood, 11.8 × 20.4 cm.

Russia, Saint Petersburg, Hermitage Museum: Bank of the Loire near Chouzé, 1883, oil on canvas.