Charles Émile Auguste Durand dit Carolus-Duran

Charles Émile Auguste Durand (or Durant), known as Carolus-Duran, born July 4, 1837 in Lille and died February 17, 1917 in Paris, was a French painter. He studied drawing with the sculptor Augustin-Phidias Cadet de Beaupré at the Lille Academy, then spent two years studying painting with François Souchon, himself a pupil of David. Carolus-Duran arrived in Paris in 1853 and met Gustave Courbet, Édouard Manet and Henri Fantin-Latour, among others. He exhibited at the Salon for the first time in 1859. From 1862 to 1866, he traveled to Rome and Spain. His style, initially influenced by Courbet's realism, then turned to the art of Diego Velázquez. In 1870, he became a portrait painter and opened a studio in Paris, where he taught painting. He was one of the founders of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts and was elected a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in 1904. The Academy hesitated over the choice of director for the French Academy in Rome, deliberating three times before finally selecting Carolus-Duran. He was Director of the French Academy in Rome from 1905 to 1913.

1905-1912