Who painted “Little Bather”?

“Little Bather” was painted by Thomas Couture in 1849. Where to see it: Hermitage Museum.

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Academic Art: smooth, glossy surfaces and idealised figures, usually from myth, the Bible or history; Realism shows ordinary people and Impressionism visible, broken strokes.

Thomas Couture (21 December 1815 – 30 March 1879) was a French history painter and teacher. He taught many notable contemporary figures of the art world, such as Édouard Manet, Henri Fantin-Latour, John La Farge, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, John Ward Dunsmore, Karel Javůrek, William Morris Hunt, and Joseph-Noël Sylvestre. Wikipedia

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“The Romans of the Decadence”, 1847
“La Soif de l'or”, 1844
“L'Enrôlement des volontaires de 1792”, 1848
“Henri Didier”
“The Duel After the Masquerade”, 1857
“The Thorny Path”, 1873
“The Supper After the Masked Ball”, 1855
“Lust for Gold”, 1844