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Article: Carolus-Duran retrospective. (Report from Europe).(paintings; Palais des Beaux-Arts, Lille, France)
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- The Magazine Antiques
- Article date:
- May 1, 2003
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In 1903 the art critic Arsene Alexandre wrote that "There are few names as illustrious at the moment in the French school and among the various schools worldwide than that of Mr Carolus-Duran." A century later this nearly forgotten artist (born Charles Emile Auguste Durand), whose last retrospective was mounted in 1919, is the subject of a traveling exhibition that will be on view at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Lille until June 9 and at the Musee des Augustins in Toulouse from June 27 until September 29.
Carolus-Duran was born in Lille in 1837 and studied there before completing his training in Paris at the Academie Suisse in 1860. He made several trips to Italy ...