Like all gifted artists, M. Duez is an anxious man. The ideal that he wants to reach always seems to move farther away from him as soon as he approaches. How many times, however, he has already conquered success! And he is only thirty-eight years old.
- Eugène Montrosier, Les Artistes Modernes : Les Peintres d’Histoire, Paysagistes, Portraitistes, et Sculpteurs, Paris : Librairie Artistique, pg. 61
Anxiousness perhaps produces pro-activeness, and this is certainly the case for Ernest-Ange Duez who, in addition to becoming a leading artist of the late nineteenth century, was a strong advocate for the advancement of artistic styles outside of the Salon system, furthering the avant-garde move towards an art that was free of the staid principles advocated by the École des Beaux-Arts. In his own work, he was a devotee of the Normandy coast, and can be loosely associated with the Impressionist group, though his execution differs somewhat in style.
Ernest-Ange Duez was born in Paris on March 8, 1843. In his early twenties, when others had already begun their official artistic training, Duez had “accepted the family decree that he should enter a silk house for business” (C.H. Stranahan, A History of French Painting, New York: Scribner’s & Sons, 1888, pg. 471), where he remained for three years until, at the mature age of twenty-seven, he could no longer push aside his desire to pursue a career as an artist. His training began in the Parisian ateliers of Isidore-Alexandre-Augustin Pils, a well-known Realist painter, and Carolus-Duran, the adopted name for Charles-Auguste-Émile Durand, who became well known for his portraits and led an atelier that produced many successful artists, such as the Americans John Singer Sargent and James McNeill Whistler.
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Ernest Ange Duez (French, 1843-1896) Une Parisienne
signed, inscribed and dated 'E Duez/Paris 1883' (lower left)
oil on canvas
130.2 x 97.2cm (51 1/4 x 38 1/4in). FootnotesProvenance
Purchased by the grandparents of the present owner in Paris in the 1950s
Thence by family descent
The present lot is an iconic image of the independent Parisienne walking along an open boulevard, her sober but fashionable dress offset by her bright flowers. It is a vision of Paris made famous by artists such as Gustave Cailebotte (1848-1894), Edouard Manet (1832-1883) and Edgar Degas (1834-1917) and writers from Balzac to Zola. The treatment of the paint and the palette takes much from Manet who was also famous for depicting an unaccompanied woman in an urban setting, a subject that in the 1880s still had the power to shock. Manet's The Railway painted ten years earlier in 1873 was derided by some critics for its placement of an unaccompanied woman and a child against the railings of a station. Although by no means as contentious as Manet's picture, by the social standards of the time Une Parisienne could still be seen as a challenging image and one that is an interesting comparison to the well-known depictions of the solitary urban male, or flâneur, made famous by Baudelaire and other writers and artists of the time.
Ernest-Ange Duez studied at the famous atelier of Carolus-Duran (1837-1917) in the 1870s where among others he worked alongside John Singer Sargent (1856-1925). Later on in their careers Duez and Sargent would work in neighbouring studios on the Boulevard Berthier. Sargent painted several portraits of Duez and his wife during this time, with this illustrated example from the Montclair Art Museum inscribed to the reverse, 'À mon ami Duez John S. Sargent.' Together they moved in the same social circle as Paul-Albert Besnard (1849-1936), Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924), Jacques-Émile Blanche (1861-1942) and Giovanni Boldini (1 Ernest Ange Duez (1843 - 1896) Ernest Ange Duez: 4
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