Félix Trutat

Félix Trutat was a French painter, known primarily for portraits and nudes.

Life and work

He studied with Léon Cogniet and 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, with no known offspring.
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.
His first painting, Nude Girl on a Panther Skin, was used by John Berger to illustrate the concept of the male gaze in his groundbreaking work Ways of Seeing..