Auguste Toulmouche’s Paintings That Tell Stories

The Paintings That Tell the Stories by Auguste Toulmouche Auguste Toulmouche (1829 – 1890) was a French painter known for his luxurious portraits of Parisian women. Toulmouche loved to tell stories. But instead of putting quill to paper, he put brush to canvas. His paintings share the academic style of the Académie des Beaux-Arts that dominated French art in the mid 19th century. Playing in Toulmouche’s favor was a trend that lent itself to storytelling—a move towards greater idealism. Although painted in the mid-Victorian era, his themes were often set in the Regency revival and late Georgian periods.