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    Étienne-Joseph-Théophile Thoré (better known as Théophile Thoré-Bürger) (23 June 1807 – 30 April 1869) was a French journalist and art critic. He is best...
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    varnish and showed the original tones, described by the art critic Théophile Thoré-Bürger in 1859 as "pale wall" (mur blême) and "bright colour" (lumineuse...
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    century, Vermeer was rediscovered by Gustav Friedrich Waagen and Théophile Thoré-Bürger, who published an essay attributing 66 pictures to him, although...
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    further three. This compares to the 74 pictures attributed to him by Théophile Thoré-Bürger in 1866. Vermeer's reputation increased greatly during the latter...
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    century, Vermeer was rediscovered by Gustav Friedrich Waagen and Théophile Thoré-Bürger, who published an essay attributing 66 pictures to him, although...
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    to Pieter de Hooch. It was so labelled when French art critic Théophile Thoré-Bürger came upon it, recognizing it as one of the rare works of the Dutch...
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    Gustave Courbet and the poet Charles Baudelaire. The art critic Théophile Thoré-Bürger saw it in the tradition of Goya and Velázquez. There were, however...
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    Paris: Gallimard. Thoré-Burger, Théophile; Bürger, William (1870). Salons de William Bürger, 1861-1868, avec une préface par Théophile Thoré (in French). Vol...
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    painting was widely admired, and written about by Baudelaire and Théophile Thoré-Bürger. Ingres made a second version in 1842 with the help of two of his...
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    the 1860s his prestige rose again thanks to the efforts of critic Théophile Thoré-Bürger. With his rehabilitation in public esteem came the enormous rise...
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