The rustic painting of Théodule Ribot in the spotlight in Toulouse

With Théodule Ribot (1823-1891), which the association of three regional museums consecrates with a retrospective, noir c'est noir. But these dark backgrounds which characterize this painter have a positive goal: to concentrate the light on the little people, to express their genius, that of their places, of their objects. Here then, first in Toulouse before Marseille and Caen, on beautiful coal or slate-colored picture rails occupying the choir of the old Augustins church (the only open part of a museum under construction and which will not reopen until 2023) , 80 tables. So many visions of a magnified modest daily life. Because if in his oils, coming from all over France like other European countries or North America, Ribot spins the strict realism advocated by Courbet - his socializing message excepted - it is to exhale a seductive humanist fragrance. .

Irreducible to the labels of time (neither really academic nor impressionist), the artist has been rediscovered in recent years by the art historian

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