Thomas Couture, 1859 - Soap Bubbles - fine art print

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A schoolboy, identifiable by the books on the desk, contemplates soap bubbles, traditional symbols of the transience of life. A wilting laurel wreath on the wall behind him suggests the fleeting nature of praise and honors. The word "immortalité," inscribed on the paper inserted in the mirror, reinforces the painting’s allegorical content.Couture was an influential teacher known for his opposition to strict academic instruction. Among his pupils was Manet, who in 1867 painted his own, more naturalistic, version of this subject (Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon).

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In 1859 Thomas Couture made the artwork. The 160 year-old painting measures the size 51 1/2 x 38 5/8 in (130,8 x 98,1 cm). Oil on canvas was used by the French painter as the technique for the work of art. The work of art is in the the digital art collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which is located in New York City, New York, United States of America. With courtesy of - The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Bequest of Catharine Lorillard Wolfe, 1887 (public domain). Additionally, the artpiece has the creditline: Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Bequest of Catharine Lorillard Wolfe, 1887. Moreover, alignment of the digital reproduction is portrait with a ratio of 3 : 4, which means that the length is 25% shorter than the width. Thomas Couture was a painter, whose art style can primarily be classified as Historicism. The Historicist painter was born in 1815 in Senlis, Hauts-de-France, France and deceased at the age of 64 in 1879 in Villiers-le-Bel, Ile-de-France, France.

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