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FERNAND TOUSSAINT (1873-1956)
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FERNAND TOUSSAINT (1873-1956)
Portrait of an Elegant Woman Dressed in Eighteenth-Century Fashion
Oil on canvas
Signed lower left
Oil on canvas, signed lower left
81 x 64 cm - 31 7/8 x 25 1/4 in.
Provenance
Private collection, Belgium
Fernand Toussaint was a pupil of Jean-François Portaels and apprenticed at the Académie royale des Beaux-Ats in Brussels. He then continued his training in Paris with Alfred Stevens. A figure painter, he tried his hand at various genres: portraits, genre scenes, landscapes, seascapes and still lifes. He was also a sought-after draughtsman and lithographer.
Brought up in an affluent, cultured environment where it was understood early on that his budding talent should be encouraged, Toussaint became a pupil of Portaels at the age of fifteen. At eighteen, he moved to Paris, where he completed his studies. The masters of female portraiture seduced him, and he always remained under their influence. An artist with refined, aristocratic tastes, he also excelled as a painter of flowers. In 1929, "L'Illustration" devoted a special issue to the Paris Salon, which awarded him its gold medal for a portrait of a woman. He was also drawn to London, dazzled by the great English portraitists such as George Romney and Thomas Gainsborough. He took part in the La Libre Esthétique movement and designed posters in the Art Nouveau style. "Le Sillon" was reproduced in "Les Maîtres de l'affiche" (1895-1900).
Portrait of an Elegant Woman Dressed in Eighteenth-Century Fashion
Oil on canvas
Signed lower left
Oil on canvas, signed lower left
81 x 64 cm - 31 7/8 x 25 1/4 in.
Provenance
Private collection, Belgium
Fernand Toussaint was a pupil of Jean-François Portaels and apprenticed at the Académie royale des Beaux-Ats in Brussels. He then continued his training in Paris with Alfred Stevens. A figure painter, he tried his hand at various genres: portraits, genre scenes, landscapes, seascapes and still lifes. He was also a sought-after draughtsman and lithographer.
Brought up in an affluent, cultured environment where it was understood early on that his budding talent should be encouraged, Toussaint became a pupil of Portaels at the age of fifteen. At eighteen, he moved to Paris, where he completed his studies. The masters of female portraiture seduced him, and he always remained under their influence. An artist with refined, aristocratic tastes, he also excelled as a painter of flowers. In 1929, "L'Illustration" devoted a special issue to the Paris Salon, which awarded him its gold medal for a portrait of a woman. He was also drawn to London, dazzled by the great English portraitists such as George Romney and Thomas Gainsborough. He took part in the La Libre Esthétique movement and designed posters in the Art Nouveau style. "Le Sillon" was reproduced in "Les Maîtres de l'affiche" (1895-1900).