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Louis Edmond Duranty (6 June 1833 – 9 April 1880) was a prolific French novelist and art critic.[1]
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Duranty supported the realist cause and later the Impressionists. He was challenged to a duel in 1870 by Édouard Manet over an affront. He was a friend of Edgar Degas, who painted a celebrated portrait of him in 1879 (Burrell Collection, Glasgow). He was a frequent visitor to the Café Guerbois.
Duranty adopted 'truth' as the slogan of his short-lived journal Réalisme (1856–57), and in the second volume he composed principles of realism. Duranty is the author of The New Painting.
References
edit- ^ Duranty, [Louis-Emile] Edmond, L. Présuirer, pseudonym Archived 2012-02-09 at the Wayback Machine, Dictionary of Art Historians
External links
edit- Degas: The Artist's Mind, exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art fully available online as PDF, which contains material on Louis Edmond Duranty (see index)
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