Born in Paris in 1829 / Died in 1900 in Paris
Genre painter, figures, nudes, portraits, landscapes.
A student of Hebert and Jallabert, Paul-Désiré TROUILLEBERT honorably began a career as a portrait painter, but his meeting with Corot converted him so well to natural landscape that he now only lives in the orbit of the master of Ville-d'Avray, directing his research almost exclusively on the open air and the rendering of the atmosphere.
With frankness, Paul-Désiré TROUILLEBERT was inspired throughout his life by the same themes as Corot: the banks of the water in the morning and at sunset, ponds in the countryside, trees and woods are all subjects that never cease to seduce him.
With a brush that lacks neither lightness nor transparency, Paul-Désiré TROUILLEBERT strives to translate, in the gray range of his elder, the luminous and atmospheric values of nature.
His pleasant paintings have been a great success with the public and retain a constant appeal.
Paul-Désiré TROUILLEBERT exhibited at the Salon from 1865.
Museums:
Ajaccio, Angers, Angoulême, Beaune, Besançon, Boulogne sur Mer, Brussels, Buenos Aires, Cambrai, Cleveland, Dieppe, Dijon, Flers, Fontainebleau, Ganat, Kagawa (Japan), Le Puy en Velay, Marseille, Meaux, Montbard, Montpellier, Mulhouse, New York (Metropolitan Museum) , Nice, Niort, Paris (Musée d'Orsay, Musée du Petit Palais), Pasadena, Norton Simon Museum, Reims, Rouen, Saumur, Saint Gallen (Switzerland), Saint Petersburg (Hermitage Museum), Valparaiso (Chile), Valence.Literature: Bénézit - Dictionary of the Little Masters of Painting by Gérald Schurr and Pierre Cabanne - The French landscape painters of the 19th century by Lydia Harambourg - The Pre-impressionists by Georges Pillemont - Barbizon and the landscape painters of the 19th century by Claude Marumo - The art of landscape by Jeanine Bailly-Herzberg - The Barbizon school by Müllerschön and Maïer - Landscape painters of the 19th century by Brame and Lorenceau - The school of Barbizon at the Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon
