The result is an image that is at once delicate and rich. Gaston La Touche (1854 1913) The following information is quoted from the pages devoted to La Touche and maintained by Roy Brindley & Selina Baring. The present work is an excellent example of his approach: groups of dancers are painted in thin strokes of soft color over a burnt sienna ground. French painter, sculptor and engraver, La Touche was a member of the Socit nationale des beaux-arts created in 1890 after. His works from this period can be compared to those of Watteau: images of women in flowing chiffon dresses, lush parks with fountains and mythological sculpture, nymphs mingling with eighteenth-century figures, commedia dell?arte characters and lovers conversing in sumptuous interiors.Īlthough the art of an earlier century inspired la Touche?s subjects, his painting technique was thoroughly modern: his friends Bracquemond and Manet, the latter of whom included him in his Bar at the Folies Bergère, advised him. This change in venue brought a change in la Touche?s art: he abandoned the somber domestic scenes that occupied him during the 1880s and adopted a soft palette, Impressionist touch, and more joyous subjects. He became one of the first artists to follow the lead of Ernest Meissonier and Pierre Puvis de Chavannes in the formation of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts and their alternative Salon at the Palais de l?Industrie. A painter who fused the charm and elegance of classical and fête galante themes in his art, Gaston la Touche?s greatest success came during the 1890s.
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