Jules-Antoine Castagnary
Jules-Antoine Castagnary (11 April 1830 – 11 May 1888) was a French liberal politician, journalist and progressive and influential
Impressionist" in his positive and perceptive review of the first Impressionist show, in Le Siècle, 29 April 1874.[1]
Born at
Comité des monuments historiques. He was appointed to a ministerial post in the short-lived Léon Gambetta cabinet in 1881, but resigned when that ministry fell 1 January 1882.[3]
His portrait by his intimate friend Gustave Courbet (1870), whose art Castagnary championed from the first and whose radical role during the Paris Commune Castagnary defended after Courbet's death,[4] is now in the Musée d'Orsay, Paris.[5] The correspondence between the two men is a fundamental document in analyzing Courbet's life and output.[6]
At the time of his death in Paris, Castagnary was engaged in a full-length biography of Courbet, left incomplete; he is buried in the
Cimetière de Montmartre
, Paris.
Selected works
- Philosophie du salon de 1857, 1858
- Les Artistes au XIXe siècle : Salon de 1861, 1861
- Grand Album des Expositions de peinture et de sculpture. 69 tableaux et statues, 1863
- Les Libres Propos, 1864
- Le Bilan de l'année 1868, politique, littéraire, dramatique, artistique et scientifique, (contributor with Paschal Grousset, Arthur Ranc and Francisque Sarcey), 1869
- Les Jésuites devant la loi française, 1877
- Exposition des œuvres de G. Courbet à l'École des Beaux-Arts en mai 1882, (exhibition catalogue), 1882. Curated and edited by Castagnary.
- Gustave Courbet et la colonne Vendôme : plaidoyer pour un ami mort, 1883
- Salons (1857-1879), 2 vols, 1892
Notes
- ^ Castagnary's review quoted
- ^ Castagnary's Salons were collected and edited by Eugène Spuller, 2 vols., Paris 1892.
- ^ Gerstle Mack, Gustave Courbet :176.
- ^ Castagnary,Gustave Courbet et la colonne Vendôme : plaidoyer pour un ami mort, 1883.
- ^ Portrait of Jules-Antoine Castagnary, by Gustave Courbet
- ^ Mary G. Morton, Charlotte Nalle Eyerman, Dominique de Font-Réaulx, Courbet And the Modern Landscape, 2006:18, note 31
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