Paul Trouillebert

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

Paul 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-François Jalabert (1819-1901), and made his debut at the Salon of 1865, exhibiting a portrait.

At the Paris Salon of 1869, Mr. Trouillebert exhibited “Au bois Rossignolet”, which was a lyrical Fontainebleau landscape that received great critical acclaim.

The Harem Servant Girl, 1874
The Harem Servant Girl, 1874

He was interested in the orientalism and produced paintings of nudes. He painted a most fabulous 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). and in 1884, his painting of nudes, The Bathers was well received by the Paris Salon


he was a most famous fashion designer too.

[edit] Selected works

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