{"id":18338,"date":"2023-05-18T14:49:03","date_gmt":"2023-05-18T18:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/?page_id=18338"},"modified":"2023-06-06T16:07:27","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T20:07:27","slug":"theodule-ribot-biography","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/exhibitions\/theodule-ribot-biography\/","title":{"rendered":"Th\u00e9odule Ribot Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Th\u00e9odule-Augustin(French, 1823 -1891)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Realist painter and printmaker Ribot was largely self-taught. He studied for a time at \u00c9cole des Arts et M\u00e9tiers de Ch\u00e2lons and apprenticed with artist Auguste-Barth\u00e9l\u00e9my Glaize after he moved to Paris in 1845, but he never studied under another master. Having always supported himself and his family through trade-work\u2014such as gilding mirrors, coloring lithographs for novels, and painting trade signs\u2014Ribot is said to have considered himself more artisan than artist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ribot\u2019s paintings, done at night by lamplight, cast his wife and son in domestic genre scenes, as well as religious subjects, giving an intensely personal feel to much of his work. Although rooted in realism, his subject matter and style\u2014which drew heavily from the emotive work of Baroque painters like Caravaggio, Rembrandt<\/a>, and Diego Vel\u00e1zquez \u2014were much more in line with the expectations of the French Academy than those of the Impressionists whose work was purposefully not as grand. Because of this, Ribot was awarded medals in several Salons. In 1878, he was named an officer of the L\u00e9gion d’honneur, the highest honor in France. After he passed away in 1891, a retrospective of his work was staged at the \u00c9cole des Beaux-Arts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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