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Théophile
Acrylic on canvas
Signature on the back
50 x 70 x 2 cm.
18 x 24 x 0.78 inch.
Unique
Celebrities of Occitanie Collection
While an ardent defender of Romanticism, his work is difficult to classify and remains a point of reference for many subsequent literary traditions such as Parnassianism, Symbolism, Decadence and Modernism.
Did you know
Widely esteemed for his writing by writers as disparate as Balzac, Baudelaire, the Goncourt brothers, Flaubert, Pound, Eliot, James, Proust, and Wilde, Théophile Gautier started off as a painter.
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