# The Bird Catcher, in 19th-century France

Thomas Couture painted this in about 1857, aged about 37. It is now at the Art Institute of Chicago.

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## The work

- Date: c. 1857
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 40.8 × 59.6 cm (16 × 23 1/2 in.); Framed: 55.6 × 74.3 × 8 cm (21 7/8 × 29 1/4 × 3 1/8 in.)
- Type: Painting
- Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1942.49
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Thomas Couture](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/thomas-couture), French, 1815–1879

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