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Thomas Couture

1815 - 1879

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Thomas Couture (French pronunciation: [tɔma kutyʁ]; 21 December 1815 – 30 March 1879) was a French history painter and teacher. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Thomas Couture has received more than 183,698 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Thomas Couture is the 331st most popular painter (down from 302nd in 2019), the 1,073rd most popular biography from France (down from 949th in 2019) and the 71st most popular French Painter.

Thomas Couture was a French painter who is most famous for his portraits of society figures and royalty.

Memorability Metrics

  • 180k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 62.16

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 37

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.85

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.31

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Thomas Couture ranks 331 out of 2,023. Before him are Ary Scheffer, Francesco Primaticcio, Ludovico Carracci, Albert Marquet, Léon Bonnat, and Meindert Hobbema. After him are Jean-Marc Nattier, Adriaen Brouwer, Léon Bakst, Albert Edelfelt, Claude Joseph Vernet, and Hendrik Goltzius.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1815, Thomas Couture ranks 11. Before him are Karl Weierstrass, Otto of Greece, Louis-Jules Trochu, Adolph Menzel, Johann Jakob Bachofen, and Ildefons Cerdà. After him are Julia Margaret Cameron, Ľudovít Štúr, Josip Juraj Strossmayer, Lorenz von Stein, Ernest Meissonier, and Giuseppina Strepponi. Among people deceased in 1879, Thomas Couture ranks 9. Before him are Honoré Daumier, Napoléon, Prince Imperial, Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, Adolf Anderssen, Albrecht von Roon, and Gottfried Semper. After him are Julia Margaret Cameron, August Grisebach, Charles De Coster, Jón Sigurðsson, Maria Teresa of Savoy, and Sher Ali Khan.

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In France

Among people born in France, Thomas Couture ranks 1,073 out of 6,770. Before him are Madame de Brinvilliers (1630), Lazare Hoche (1768), Pierre-Gilles de Gennes (1932), Alexandra David-Néel (1868), Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester (1208), and Claude Jade (1948). After him are Michel Rolle (1652), Jeanne de Valois-Saint-Rémy (1756), Ramon Berenguer III, Count of Barcelona (1082), Theudebert II (585), Desireless (1952), and Johannes Tauler (1300).

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Among PAINTERS In France

Among painters born in France, Thomas Couture ranks 71. Before him are Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (1824), Martin Schongauer (1450), Paul Delaroche (1797), Horace Vernet (1789), Albert Marquet (1875), and Léon Bonnat (1833). After him are Jean-Marc Nattier (1685), Claude Joseph Vernet (1714), Pierre Mignard (1612), Marie-Guillemine Benoist (1768), Balthus (1908), and Jan Gossaert (1478).

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