Thomas Couture (1815–1879)

Thomas Couture, Self-Portrait

Couture, Damocles (1866)

Couture, Soap Bubbles (c1859)

Thomas Couture, The Thorny Path (1873)

Couture, Romans in the Decadence of the Empire (1847)

For Scale -- The Painting in its Current Home at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris