Zacharie Astruc (23 February 1833 in
Angers
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– 24 May 1907 in
Paris
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) was a French
sculptor
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,
painter, poet, and
art critic.
He was an important figure in the cultural life of France in the second half of the 19th century, and participated in the first
Impressionist exhibition of 1874 and also in the
Exposition Universelle of 1900. As an art critic, writing primarily between 1859–72, he was a strong defender of
Courbet
Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet ( , , ; 10 June 1819 – 31 December 1877) was a French painter who led the Realism movement in 19th-century French painting. Committed to painting only what he could see, he rejected academic convention and t ...
, and was one of the first to recognize the talent of
Manet
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. He also defended
Monet
Oscar-Claude Monet (, , ; 14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926) was a French painter and founder of impressionist painting who is seen as a key precursor to modernism, especially in his attempts to paint nature as he perceived it. During ...
, Whistler, Carolus-Duran,
Fantin-Latour, and
Alphonse Legros.
He appears in the famous painting of
Henri Fantin-Latour
Henri Fantin-Latour (14 January 1836 – 25 August 1904) was a French painter and lithographer best known for his flower paintings and group portraits of Parisian artists and writers.
Biography
He was born Ignace Henri Jean Théodore Fantin-La ...
, ''
A Studio at Les Batignolles
''A Studio at Les Batignolles'' is an oil-on-canvas painting by Henri Fantin-Latour created in 1870. The work is now at the Musée d'Orsay.
Description
Its staging evokes the studio of French painter Édouard Manet and represents him seated and ...
'', where he is seated next to Manet, who is shown painting his portrait. Astruc is generally credited with titling Manet's painting ''
Olympia'' since an excerpt from an Astruc poem was included in the catalogue entry with the piece when it was exhibited at the 1865
Salon.
Astruc was a hispanophile, well versed in the art and literature of Spain. After his own trip to Spain in 1864, he helped prepare the itinerary for Manet's only trip to Spain in 1865.
[S. Flescher 1978, Chapter II.] Astruc helped to promote a widespread revival of interest in
El Greco's paintings.
[J. Russel]
Seeing The Art Of El Greco As Never Before
/ref> Astruc was also a leading figure in the Japonism
''Japonisme'' is a French term that refers to the popularity and influence of Japanese art and design among a number of Western European artists in the nineteenth century following the forced reopening of foreign trade with Japan in 1858. Japo ...
movement in France in the 1860s and '70s, publishing, among other writings, three pivotal articles on Japonism in the Parisian newspaper, ''L'Etendard,'' in 1867–68.[S. Flescher 1978, Chapter lV.]
Works
Image:Roses négligemment jetées sur un vase.jpg, ''Roses Carelessly
Thrown on a Vase''
Image:Zacharie Astruc Intérieur Parisien.jpg, ''Parisian Interior''
Image:Les Prèsents Chinois.jpg, ''Chinese Gifts''
Image:Masques05.JPG, ''The Mask Seller''
Jardin du Luxembourg
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1833 births
1907 deaths
French art critics
19th-century French sculptors
19th-century French male artists
French male sculptors
20th-century French sculptors
20th-century French male artists
People from Angers
French male non-fiction writers
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