Carolus-Duran
| Charles Auguste Émile Durand | |
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 Portrait of Carolus-Duran (1879) by John Singer Sargent. | |
| Native name | Carolus-Duran |
| Born |
4 July 1837 Lille |
| Died |
17 February 1917 (aged 79) Paris |
| Nationality | French |
| Education | Lille Academy |
| Alma mater | Académie des Beaux-Arts |
| Known for | director of the French Academy in Rome |
| Awards | commander of the Legion of Honour |
Charles Auguste Émile Durand, known as Carolus-Duran[1] (Lille 4 July 1837 – 17 February 1917 Paris), was a French painter and art instructor. He is noted for his stylish depictions of members of high society in Third Republic France.
Biography
Carolus-Duran studied at the Lille Academy and then at the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris. In 1861, he traveled to Italy and Spain for further study, especially devoting himself to the pictures of Velázquez. His dramatic painting Murdered, or The Assassination (1866), was one of his first successes, and is now in the Lille museum.[1]
Carolus-Duran became best known as a portrait painter, and, as the head of one of the principal ateliers in Paris, a teacher of some of the most brilliant artists of the next generation who were his pupils. His painting Lady with the Glove (1869), a portrait of his wife, was bought for the Musée du Luxembourg in Paris.[1]
In 1889, he was made a commander of the Legion of Honour.[1] In 1890, he participated in the creation of the National Society of French Art (Société Nationale des Beaux Arts). He became a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in 1904, and in the next year, was appointed director of the French Academy in Rome to succeed Eugène Guillaume. [1]
Pupils
Among his pupils were John Singer Sargent,[2] Ralph Wormeley Curtis, Theodore Robinson,[3] and Mariquita Jenny Moberly.[4]
Selected works
(1868)
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Anna Gould
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Nadezhda Polovtseva
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Madame Henry Fouquier
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Queen Maria Pia of Portugal (1880)
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Portrait of Emily Warren Roebling (ca. 1896), Brooklyn Museum
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Lady with a Glove, Mme Carolus-Duran
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Caroline Webster Schermerhorn Astor, wife of businessman William Backhouse Astor, Jr.
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The Artist's Daughter, Marie-Anne (1874)
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Natalie Clifford Barney at age ten
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Madame Feydeau (1897)
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Georges Feydeau
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Édouard Manet
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Danaë
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Merrymakers
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Mademoiselle de Lancey, 1876.
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References
- 1 2 3 4 5 Chisholm 1911.
- ↑ Trevor Fairbrother, John Singer Sargent, New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1994, p. 13, ISBN 0-8109-3833-2
- ↑ "Biography: Theodore Robinson, 1852-1896". National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C.). Retrieved October 23, 2013.
- ↑ "Best Friends". Leighton Fine Art. Retrieved 13 May 2013.
- Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Carolus-Duran". Encyclopædia Britannica 5 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Carolus-Duran. |
- Paintings of Carolus-Duran on Insecula
- Works by Carolus-Duran at Project Gutenberg
- Carolus-Duran in American public collections on the French Sculpture Census website
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