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Duranty Louis Emil Edmond
(1833—1880)

Louis Edmond Duranty was a prolific novelist and art critic. Duranty supported the realist cause and later the Impressionists. He was challenged to a duel in 1870 by Édouard Manet over an affront. A friend of Edgar Degas, he was a frequent visitor to the Café Guerbois. Also the author of The New Painting.

Maldives, 1984, Edmond Duranty