Théodule Ribot  

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Théodule-Augustin Ribot (August 8, 1823 – September 11, 1891) was a French painter known for paintings such as Saint Vincent[1].

He was born in Saint-Nicolas-d'Attez, and studied at the École des Arts et Metiers de Chalons before moving to Paris in 1845. There he found work decorating gilded frames for a mirror manufacturer; he also studied in the studio of Auguste-Barthélémy Glaize. After a trip to Algeria around 1848, he returned in 1851 to Paris, where he continued to make his living as an artisan. In the late 1850s, working at night by lamplight, he began to paint seriously, depicting everyday subjects in a realistic style.

He made his Salon debut in 1861 with several paintings of kitchen subjects. Collectors purchased the works, and his paintings in the Salons of 1864 and 1865 were awarded medals.

Ribot painted domestic genre works, still-lifes, portraits, and religious scenes. His preference was for painting directly from nature, emphasizing the contrasts of light and dark. His use of chiaroscuro to suggest psychological states grew from his admiration for Spanish and Dutch baroque masters such as Ribera and Rembrandt, an enthusiasm shared by his contemporaries Courbet and Bonvin. Members of Ribot's family are the likely models for many of his figure compositions, in which the subjects engage in humble activities, such as preparing meals or gathering in groups to read to each other. The light draws attention to faces and hands, which emerge sharply from dimly lit surroundings.

Although the realism of Ribot's work aligns him with the most progressive artists of the generation preceding the Impressionists, he was no revolutionary, and his work met with a generally favorable response from the public and from critics.

In 1878 Ribot received the Légion d'honneur. At about this time, in ill health, he stopped painting and moved to Colombes, where he died in 1891.

Hauptwerke

• L'Intérieur de cuisine (Kücheninneres), Pariser Salon 1861, Louvre
• La ravaudeuse (Die Flickerin), Louvre
• Martyre de Saint Sebastién (Martyrium des Hl. Sebastian, H 97 x B 130cm , Pariser Salon 1865, Auktion 1879, Louvre
• Jesus unter den Schriftgelehrten, H 255 x B 180cm, Nationalmuseum Luxemburg
• In der Bourgogne, Wiener Auktion 1869
• Le samaritain compatissant (Der barmherzige Samariter), H 112 x B 145cm, Nationalmuseum Luxemburg, Pariser Salon 1870, Wiener Auktion 1873, Stockholm
• Drama von Shakespeare mit 3 Personen und zwei Masken, H 55 x B 45cm, 1928 Auktion Paris-1982, seit 1982 München Privatsammlung
• Le Chasseur, H 93 x B 74cm, Paris Bernheim-Jeune 1887, Sotheby’s 1992
• Portrait de femmes Bretonnes de Plougastel, H 92 x 73cm, Collection Santmarina, Simon Pereyra Iraola
• Junger Hirte, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere Wien
• Conversation
• Alter Fischer in Trouville, Auktion 1879
• La Recette, 1865, Marseille
• A Bed of Chrysanthemums, the Cook, Johnson Collection Philadelphia
• Le cuisinier comptable, 1862, Marseille
• The Ministrel
• Scène d'Interieur, La Rochelle
• La charbonnière, Besançon
• La leçon de géographie, Evreux
• Das Atelier
• Les Philosophes, Saint Omer
• Vieille dame, Boston
• Portrait de Femme, Lyon
• Der Bettler mit Tochter, Dresden Auktion 1889
• Der alte Schiffskapitän Auktion 1891
• Vieille femme, Grenoble
• Les titres de famille, Reims
• Jeune cuisinier, Reims
• Scène de cuisine, Reims
• Le supplice d'Alonco Cano, Nizza
• La leçon de musique, Chicago
• Tête de petite paysanne, Genf
• La fillette en gris, Petit Palais Paris
• Portrait d'homme, Petit Palais Paris
• Der Farbenreiber, Auktion 1891
• Im Laden des Antiquitätenhändlers, es ist eines der letzten Ribot-Gemälde von der Stadt Paris aus Nachlass erworben

See also

• Théodule-Armand Ribot