Carolus-Duran

Carolus-Duran studied at École des beaux-arts de Lille and Académie Suisse. Training under François Souchon and Jean-Baptiste Cadet de Beaupré is recorded. Emma Toll, Alexandre Jean-Baptiste Brun and Francine Charderon are recorded as having studied under Carolus-Duran. The recorded working language is French. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait. Positions recorded include director of the French Academy in Rome. Works named in the authority record are Portrait Édouard Manet and Portrait of Mme*** (Madame Durant). Work by Carolus-Duran is recorded in the collections of Museo del Prado, National Gallery of Canada, Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, Metropolitan Museum of Art and Musée de la civilisation. Distinctions recorded are Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour.

• Name — Carolus-Duran • Birth Name — Charles Auguste Émile Durand • Born — 4 July 1837 • Birthplace — Lille, France • Died — 17 February 1917 • Place of death — Paris, France • Education — Académie des Beaux-Arts • Known for — director of the French Academy in Rome • Children — 3 • Awards — Grand Officer, Legion of Honour (1900)

The son of a hotel owner, his first drawing lessons were with a local sculptor named Augustin-Phidias Cadet de Beaupré (1800–?) at the Académie de Lille; then took up painting with François Souchon,[1] a student of Jacques-Louis David. He went to Paris in 1853, where he adopted the name "Carolus-Duran". In 1859, he had his first exhibition at the Salon. That same year, he began attending the Académie Suisse, where he studied until 1861. One of his early influences was the Realism of Gustave Courbet.[2] • Illustration — Carolus-Duran (c. 1880) From 1862 to 1866, he travelled to Rome and Spain, thanks to a scholarship granted by his hometown. During that time, he moved away from Courbet's style and became more interested in Diego Velázquez.[3] Upon returning to France, he was awarded his first gold medal at the Salon.[4] His picture "Murdered", or "The Assassination" (1866), was one of his first successes, but he became best known afterwards as a portrait-painter, and as the head of one of the principal ateliers in Paris, where some of the most brilliant artists of a later generation were his pupils. In 1867, he became one of the nine members of the "Société Japonaise du Jinglar" (a type of wine); a group that included Henri Fantin-Latour, Félix Bracquemond and Marc-Louis Solon. They would meet once a month in Sèvres for a dinner "à la Japonaise". He married Pauline Croizette, a pastellist and miniaturist who had posed for his painting "The Lady in Gloves" in 1869.[5] They had three children. Their eldest daughter, Marie-Anne, married the playwright Georges Feydeau. • Illustration — Carolus-Duran, The Artist's Gardener, 1893, Clark Art Institute After 1870, he devoted himself almost entirely to portraits. While many of his paintings depicted wealthy patrons in elegant clothing, he also notably painted a portrait of his gardener which stands in contrast to his other works in its loose strokes and earth tones.[6] His success allowed him to open a studio on the Boulevard du Montparnasse, where he also gave painting lessons. He was named a Knight in the Légion d'honneur in 1872; being promoted to Officer in 1878, Commander in 1889 and Grand Officer in 1900.[7] In 1889 and 1900 he served on the juries at the Expositions Universelles. In 1890, he was one of the co-founders of the second Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts and he was elected a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in 1904. The following year, he was appointed Director of the French Academy in Rome, a position he held until 1913.[8] • Illustration — The Lady in Gloves, modeled by his wife Pauline He was a frequent visitor to the resort at Fréjus, where he owned a small villa. Following his death at age 79, the resort named a plaza and a beach after him.

List of works by Carolus-Duran • Illustration — Madame Henry Fouquier (1876) • Illustration — Édouard Manet (1880) • Illustration — Anna Gould • Illustration — Natalie Clifford Barney at age ten (ca. 1886–1887) • Illustration — The Artist's Daughter, Marie-Anne (1874) • Illustration — Marie-Anne as Madame Feydeau (1897) • Illustration — Georges Feydeau (ca. 1900) • Illustration — Portrait of Emily Warren Roebling (ca. 1896), Brooklyn Museum • Illustration — Merrymakers (1870) • Illustration — Le Baiser (The Kiss) (1868), self-portrait with his wife as newlyweds • Illustration — Mademoiselle de Lancey • Illustration — Equestrian Portrait of Mademoiselle Croizette (1873) • Illustration — The Poet with the Mandolin (1887) • Illustration — Maria Pia of Savoy, Queen of Portugal (1883) • Illustration — Spanish Woman, a supposed portrayal of Eva Gonzalès (1876), oil on panel, Clark Art Institute

The authorities additionally record the headings Charles Auguste Émile Durant, Carolus Duran, Charles-Emile-Auguste Durand, Emile-Auguste Carolus-Duran and Emile Auguste Carolus-Duran. His recorded language was French. He married Pauline Carolus-Duran. One child is recorded: Pierre Carolus-Duran.

Recorded position is director of the French Academy in Rome. He belonged to Ligue de la Patrie Française, Académie des beaux-arts and Société du Jing-lar.