Arsène Trouvé was a French painter, active during the nineteenth century.
Little is known of Trouvé's life or career, save that she specialized in paintings on porcelain and that she lived at 43, rue Hauteville, in what would later become the
10th arrondissement of Paris
The 10th arrondissement of Paris (''Xe arrondissement'') is one of the 20 arrondissements of the capital city of France. In spoken French, this arrondissement is referred to as ''dixième'' ("10th arrondissement of Paris" = "dixième arrondisseme ...
. In 1831 she showed a ''Portrait of Elizabeth of France'', after
Peter Paul Rubens
Sir Peter Paul Rubens (; ; 28 June 1577 – 30 May 1640) was a Flemish artist and diplomat from the Duchy of Brabant in the Southern Netherlands (modern-day Belgium). He is considered the most influential artist of the Flemish Baroque tradit ...
, at the
Paris Salon
The Salon (french: Salon), or rarely Paris Salon (French: ''Salon de Paris'' ), beginning in 1667 was the official art exhibition of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Between 1748 and 1890 it was arguably the greatest annual or biennial art ...
. She participated in the Salons of 1833, 1834, and 1835 as well, showing more copies of oil paintings at each. In 1834 she also exhibited a watercolor of a vegetable seller, which may have been an original piece.
Her best-known work is a portrait of
Jean-Gaspard Deburau
Jean-Gaspard Deburau (born Jan Kašpar Dvořák; 31 July 1796 – 17 June 1846), sometimes erroneously called Debureau, was a Bohemian-French mime. He performed from 1816 to the year of his death at the Théâtre des Funambules, which was ...
after an original by
Auguste Bouquet.
Exhibited at the 1831 Salon, today it is in the collections of the
Carnavalet Museum.
References
French women painters
19th-century French painters
19th-century French women artists
Painters from Paris
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