Louis Edmond Duranty

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Louis Edmond Duranty (6 June 1833– 9 April 1880) was a prolific French novelist and art critic.^[1]

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. Also the author of The New Painting.

Duranty adopted 'truth' as the slogan of his short-lived journal Réalisme (1856–57), and in the second volume he composed principles of realism.

References

Works by or about Louis Edmond Duranty in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
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)

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 19677036 LCCN: n83800448 ISNI: 0000 0000 8098 2286 GND: 118105043 SUDOC: 026846071 BNF: cb11901347k

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Name	Duranty, Louis Edmond
Alternative names	Duranty, Louis-Emile Edmond; Edmond Duranty
Short description	French novelist and art critic
Date of birth	6 June 1833
Place of birth	Paris, France
Date of death	9 April 1880
Place of death	Paris, France

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