Paul Désiré Trouillebert

Chicken and Cauliflower
c. 1870
Oil on Canvas
17 x 24

Paul Désiré Trouillebert (1829-1900)

A French portrait, genre and landscape painter from the French Barbizon School, Paul
Désiré Trouillebert was a student of Ernest Hébert and Charles-François Jalabert. He
made his exhibition debut at the Paris Salon of 1865 by exhibiting an example of his
excellent portraiture. At the Paris Salon of 1869, he exhibited an example of his
landscape rendering, “Au bois Rossignolet” a lyrical Fontainebleau landscape that
received great critical acclaim. Though he continued to concentrate on portraiture for
the next decade, he eventually turned primarily to producing silvery landscapes
steeping in cool, damp color. A painting titled “Bathers” which he exhibited at the Salon
in 1882 firmly cemented his reputation one of the leading landscape painters in France.
The misty Barbizon landscapes of Corot’s were much in vogue at the time. Trouillebert,
perhaps the finest of many admirers who strove to imitate and refine Corot’s style,
benefitted greatly from this craze. Indeed, Trouillebert’s work has often confused with
that of the earlier master. Like Corot, Trouillebert painted a wide variety of subjects,
including genre scenes, portraits, nudes and still lifes. His still life paintings in particular
are held in high esteem today, often commanding higher prices than his landscapes
which are far more plentiful.

Trouillebert’s work is represented today in many of the world’s leading museums
including the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia,
the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and many, many more.

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