Carolus Duran Famous Portrait Paintings
Carolus Duran, full name Charles Auguste Emile Durand, is a Realism portrait artist. He is known for his oil painting portraits of fashionable Paris society during the latter part of the 19th century.
Carolus-Duran famous paintings include:
- Portrait of Edouard Manet 1880 by Carolus-Duran Currently held in a Private Collection. Carolus Duran and the French artist Edouard Manet were friends, and his portrait of the artist has been painted in Manet's looser painting style.
- The Kiss 1868, also known as Le Baiser. Gustav Klimt's The Kiss painting follows in the footsteps of Duran's painting, The Kiss 1868. It also portrays a romantic encounter painting of an embracing couple kissing tenderly. It is one of our most popular paintings.
- Sleeping Man 1861 On display at the Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille. He also painted The Convalescent the same year. It is a highly regarded oil painting on canvas, for which he won 1st prize in the Wicar de Lille competition.
- Study of Lilia 1887 by Carolus Duran. On display at the National Gallery of Art in New York, this beautiful portrait painting shows Lilia with her back turned to the viewer.
- Carolus-Duran Famous Nude Paintings. Lila, painted in 1888 again depicts the sitter with her back to the viewer. Another of his famous nude paintings is Danae 1800, on display at the Musee des Beau-Arts Bordeaux.
Who is Carolus Duran
Born in Lille, France, in 1837, he was a French Academic artist and a painter of the Realism art movement. His paintings are influenced by the oil paintings of Baroque artist Diego Velasquez and Gustave Courbet's realism paintings. While his career concentrated mainly on portrait paintings, he also taught art. His most famous student is John Singer Sargent, also known for his oil on canvas famous portrait paintings. The artist died in France in 1917 aged 79.
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