Louis Edmond Duranty

Louis Edmond Duranty (6 June 1833 – 9 April 1880) was a prolific French novelist and art critic.

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

External links

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)

1833 births

1880 deaths

French art critics

Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery

19th-century French journalists

Male journalists

19th-century French novelists

French male novelists

19th-century French male writers

French male non-fiction writers

French duellists