Félix Trutat

Félix Trutat (27 February 1824, Dijon - 7 March 1848, Dijon) was a French painter, known primarily for portraits and nudes.

Portrait of the Artist with His Mother (1846)

Life and work

He studied with Léon Cogniet and Pierre-Paul Hamon at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He also absorbed stylistic influences from the Venetian Old Masters that he copied in the Louvre.

He died of tuberculosis at the age of twenty-four, without issue.

Many of his works are reminiscent of Gustave Courbet. A majority of them are in the collection of the Musée des beaux-arts de Dijon; including his self-portrait. Among those on display elsewhere is a portrait of an unidentified woman at the Musée national Jean-Jacques Henner.

A street in Dijon has been named after him.

His cousin, Eugène Trutat, was a well known photographer and Director of the Muséum de Toulouse.

Further reading
  • Madeleine Levinger, Félix Trutat (Monograph), Editions Rieder, 1932 Online
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