Unknown Youth Portrait
- Title:
- Unknown Youth Portrait
- Collection:
- Campus Artifacts, Art & Memorabilia
- Creator:
- Ribot, Augustine Theodule
- Photographer:
- Espinosa de los Monteros, Pamela
- Date:
- ca. 1855-1891
- Location:
- Uris Library, Room 109, Cornell University
- Country:
- France
- ID Number:
- artsdb_0192
- Accession Number:
- W84-71.5
- File Name:
- artsdb_0192.jpg
- Culture:
- French
- Style/Period:
- Realism
- Work Type:
- portraits
- Materials/Techniques:
- Oil
- Subject:
- Ribot, Théodule, 1823-1891
- Image View Type:
- General
- Image View Description:
- Front View
- Description:
- Portrait of an unknown youth by French Artist Augustine Theodule Ribot,
“French painter Theodule Ribot. After his father died in 1840 Ribot trained himself as an artist while working as a bookkeeper in Elbeuf, a small village near Rouen. In 1845 he married and moved to Paris, where he worked as a decorator of gilded frames for a mirror manufacturer and became a pupil in the studio of Auguste-Barthélémy Glaize. He painted architectural backgrounds for Glaize and made his own studies from the nude model. Ribot continued working in a variety of trades, including colouring lithographs, decorating window-shades, painting signs and making copies of paintings by Watteau for the American market. It was not until the late 1850s when he began to produce his own paintings. Ribot painted religious subjects, genre scenes and still-lifes, working in a limited number of muted tones to produce canvases reminiscent of Rembrandt and Frans Hals. Ribot exhibited at international exhibitions in Amsterdam (1865), Munich (1869) and Vienna (1873), and in local exhibitions throughout France. During the Franco-Prussian War (1870–71) his studio in the Parisian suburb of Argenteuil was sacked by the invading Prussians, and many of his drawings and paintings were destroyed. In later years he tended to concentrate on portraiture. He was awarded the Légion d’honneur in 1878 and a special award at the Exposition Universelle, Paris (1878).” [Clarke, Michael, and E. Bénézit. 2007. Oxford art online. Gabriel P. Weisberg. " Ribot, Théodule." In Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online, [Oxford, England]: Oxford University Press, www.oxfordartonline.com]. - Source:
- Clarke, Michael, and E. Bénézit. 2007. Oxford art online. Gabriel P. Weisberg. " Ribot, Théodule." In Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online, [Oxford, England]: Oxford University Press, www.oxfordartonline.com
- Repository:
- Cornell University
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- The content in the Campus Artifacts, Art & Memorabilia Collection is protected by copyright, and the copyright holders are Cornell University Library and the Cornell Association of Professors Emeritus. This collection was created by Cornell University Library in 2010, with funding from a Digital Collections in Arts and Sciences Grant to Howard Howland. Cornell is providing access to the materials for research and personal use. The written permission of any copyright and other rights holders is required for distribution, reproduction, or other use that extends beyond what is authorized by fair use and other statutory exemptions. Responsibility for making an independent legal assessment of an item and securing any necessary permissions ultimately rests with persons desiring to use the item. Please contact the Cornell Association of Professors Emeritus at cape@cornell.edu for more information about this collection, or to request permission to use these images.