Gustave-Claude-Étienne Courtois

Gustave-Claude-Étienne Courtois studied at Beaux-Arts de Paris. Training under Jean-Léon Gérôme and Victor Jeanneney is recorded. Marie Krøyer, Emilie Mundt and Marie Luplau are recorded as having studied under Gustave-Claude-Étienne Courtois. The recorded working language is French. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait and history. Employment is recorded with Académie de la Grande Chaumière and Académie Colarossi. Works named in the authority record are Madame Gautreau. Work by Gustave-Claude-Étienne Courtois is recorded in the collections of Musée d'Orsay, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Yale University Art Gallery, Alte Nationalgalerie and Musée des Beaux-Arts et d'Archéologie de Besançon. Distinctions recorded are Knight of the Legion of Honour.

• Name — Gustave Courtois • Birth Name — Gustave-Claude-Étienne Courtois • Born — 18 May 1852 • Birthplace — Pusey, France • Died — 23 November 1923 • Place of death — Neuilly-sur-Seine, France

• Illustration — Courtois in his studio, Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret, in 1880 • Illustration — Courtois portrait, Madame Gautreau, completed in 1891 • Illustration — Young Florentin Playing with Cats, a portrait by Courtois Courtois was born 18 May 1852 in Pusey, Haute-Saône, France to an unwed mother who was devoted to him. Early in life, Courtois revealed an interest in art and entered the École municipale de dessin in Vesoul (Franche-Comté). His drawings were shown to Jean-Léon Gérôme, and in 1869, Gérôme encouraged Courtois to enter the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Courtois was in close friendship with fellow student Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret, with whom he maintained a fashionable studio in Neuilly-sur-Seine from the 1880s.

Courtois taught painting at Académie de la Grande Chaumière, Académie Colarossi in Paris, where Harriet Campbell Foss, Eva Bonnier, Emma Cheves Wilkins, and Dora Hitz were students. Courtois exhibited at the Salon de Paris, receiving a third-place medal in 1878 and a second-place medal in 1880. He was awarded a gold medal at the Exposition Universelle in 1889 and exhibited at the Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts after exhibiting at Salon de Paris until his death. His paintings can be seen in the art galleries of Besançon, Marseille, Bordeaux, and Luxembourg. He was a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor, decorated in 1889. Among his students were Willard Dryden Paddock, Mary Rose Hill Burton, and Sara Page. Gustave Courtois was a close friend of the Finnish artist Albert Edelfelt. They lived in the same studio building in Paris, socialized daily, shared many artistic ideals and supported each other in their work.