Paul Trouillebert

Paul Trouillebert, circa 1895

Paul Désiré Trouillebert (born 1829 in Paris, France - died June 28, 1900 in Paris, France) was a famous French Barbizon School painter in the mid-nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries.

Trouillebert is considered a portrait, and a genre and landscape painter from the French Barbizon School. He was a student of Ernest Hébert (1817–1908) and Charles Jalabert (1819–1901), and made his debut at the Salon of 1865, exhibiting a portrait. He produced many landscapes that are very close to Corot's late manner of painting. At the Paris Salon of 1869, Mr. Trouillebert exhibited “Au bois Rossignolet”, which was a lyrical Fontainebleau landscape that received great critical acclaim.

He was also interested in orientalism and produced paintings of nudes. He painted a portrait of a half-nude young woman in an ancient Egyptian style of the Greco-Roman Dynasty. He called it Servante du harem (The Harem Servant Girl). In 1884, his painting of nudes, The Bathers was well received by the Paris Salon.

Selected works

• Cleopatra & the Dying Messenger, Lightner Museum, St. Augustine, Florida, 1873.
• Servante du harem (The Harem Servant Girl), 1874
• Femme en robe bleue rêvant. Private collection
• Chemin au bord du lac de Nantua, Galerie Gary-Roche
• Deux lavanderies sous les bouleaux, Van Ham Fine Art Auctions (Van Ham Kunstauktionen)
• La Gardienne de Troupeau, Frances Aronson Fine Art, LLC
• Le Loir et la Flêche, Stoppenbach & Delestre
• Le Pêcheur et le Bateau, Daphne Alazraki
• Mme. Trouillebert, The Darvish Collection, Inc.
• Au Bord de La Loire à Montsoreau
• Diana Chasseresse (Diana the Huntress), private collection.

• Selected works
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  The Harem Servant Girl, 1874
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  A quiet backwater (between 1883 and 1889), Beecroft Art Gallery
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  Bank of the Loire Near Chouze, 1893, Hermitage Museum