Émile-Louis Foubert
1848–1911 · painter trained under Léon Bonnat and Henri Léopold Lévy
Émile-Louis Foubert (1848-1911) was a painter, and the most reliable information about his training concerns the names of his teachers: Léon Bonnat and Henri Léopold Lévy. Biographical data about him are scarce, so his artistic career cannot be reconstructed in detail from the sources available.
According to what is known, he studied with both masters, which places his training within the teaching practices of his time. No reliable records survive of his early years, his exhibitions or the commissions he may have received over the course of his career.
Among his works is a painting dated 1879, although its title and qualities cannot be identified with certainty. His style, along with any influence he may have had on other artists, remains to be documented, so any assessment of his place in the history of painting would be speculative.
Works (1)
Charcoal drawing on cardboard dated 1879 by Émile Louis Foubert, showing a satyr, a mythological figure half man and half animal linked to woodland and rural life. No details about its commission or reception are known, so its interest lies mainly in its subject and the expressive range of charcoal.
Teachers and pupils
Studied with
- Léon Bonnat 1833–1922
- Henri Leopold Levy 1840–1904