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Gaston (de) La Touche
Biography of Gaston (de) La Touche ( 1854-1913 )
Genre and landscape painter, Gaston de La Touche frequented Manet’s Studio between 1877 and 1879. Later on, he was advised by his friend Braquemont who will be painted by La Touche’s side in 1908 in Braquemond and his disciple (Orsay Museum).Manet, as for him, depicted Gaston de La Touche in Bar at Folies-Bergères and offered him his palette, as a souvenir.
Member of the French Artists in 1883, La Touche joined the National Society of Beaux-Arts in 1890. He won numerous awards from 1884 at the Salon, and at the 1889 and 1900 Expositions Universelles.
In 1890, the official Salon split and the National Society of Beaux-Arts was launched at the Palace of Industry, under the auspices of Meissonier and Puvis de Chavannes. La Touche was then one of the most popular academic painters during this split. Then, in 1906, he founded the Salon of the Watercolour society, of which he became the president.
His landscapes painted with verve have both grace of 18th century and touch of the Modern Style. Under the inf
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Gaston La Touche Biography | Oil Paintings
Gaston de La Touche art enthusiasm began when he was ten years old and he persuaded his parents to pay for drawing lessons, he took lessons from a local instructor for six years. With the start of the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, to be safe, his family returned to Normandy, his art training stopped and this was all the art training he ever got.
Even so, in the Paris Salon of 1875, Gaston La Touche made his debut with a bas-relief medallion portrait of Francois Jules Edmond Got and several etchings. Between 1877 and 1879, he became friends with Edgar Degas and Edouard Manet, who he met often at the Café de la Nouvelle Athènes. At the cafe, he was introduced to the writer Émile Zola, he would illustrate some of his books later on.
Starting in 1880, he painted dark-toned social realism works in the style of the old Dutch Masters, and his first painting was shown at the Paris Salon the next year. Not only the paintings were dark in color but they were dark in the subject matter which had already been painte
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La Touche was one of the leading continental fin-de-siècle masters who succeeded in producing scenes of enormous refinement which reflect the sophistication of a vanished age. A highly celebrated and acclaimed Belle Epoque painter, he was born in France at Saint-Cloud in 1854 and was a prodigious painter from an early age. A prominent member of the Société des Artistes Français from 1883 onwards he became one of the leading founder members, alongside Meissonier and Puvis de Chavannes, of the Société Nationale des Beaux Arts, founded in 1890 as an alternative to the outdated official Salon. He was awarded many prizes during his unfortunately short career, including medals in 1884, 1888, 1889 and 1900 at the Universal Exhibition, Paris. The same year he received further homage, being made a Chevalier of the Légion d’Honneur (1900), an honour that was extended in 1909 when he was made an Officier of the Légion d’Honneur. He was also selected to represent France at the Venice Biennale on sever
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