Thomas Couture, 1870 - Pierrot in Criminal Court - fine art print

Description of the painting painted by the French painter with the name Thomas Couture

In 1870 Thomas Couture painted this painting Pierrot in Criminal Court. The version of the painting was made with the following size Framed: 45,8 x 52,1 x 5,2 cm (18 1/16 x 20 1/2 x 2 1/16 in); Unframed: 32,2 x 39,2 cm (12 11/16 x 15 7/16 in). Oil on wood panel was used by the painter as the technique for the artwork. "Signed left on the back of the bench: t.c." is the masterpiece's inscription. Today, the artwork belongs to the collection of The Cleveland Museum of Art in Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America. We are delighted to state that the public domain masterpiece is being included with courtesy of The Cleveland Museum of Art. Creditline of the artwork: Bequest of Noah L. Butkin. Further, the alignment of the digital reproduction is landscape and has a side ratio of 1.2 : 1, meaning that the length is 20% longer than the width. The painter Thomas Couture was a European artist from France, whose art style can be classified as Historicism. The Historicist artist lived for a total of 64 years and was born in the year 1815 in Senlis, Hauts-de-France, France and deceased in 1879 in Villiers-le-Bel, Ile-de-France, France.

What does the website of the The Cleveland Museum of Art write about this 19th century artwork from the painter Thomas Couture? (© Copyright - by The Cleveland Museum of Art - www.clevelandart.org)

In this painting, Couture used two famous masked characters, Pierrot and Harlequin, to satirize and critique the public and the judicial system of the 19th century. The pathetic Pierrot represents a lower-class fool on trial for stealing food from a restaurant. The stolen items are depicted lying on the courtroom floor as an indictment of his guilt. His accusers sit on the left, while Harlequin, his lawyer, argues theatrically for the defense. The artist's contempt for the legal profession and the court system is plain in the figures of the sleeping judges. A mid-19th-century observer may have sympathized with Pierrot, who for his own survival cunningly subverts authority in order to satisfy his needs.

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