Louis Edmond Duranty

{{Short description|French novelist and art critic (1833–1880)}}

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Louis Edmond Duranty (6 June 1833 – 9 April 1880) was a prolific French novelist and art critic.[http://www.dictionaryofarthistorians.org/durantyl.htm Duranty, [Louis-Emile] Edmond, L. Présuirer, pseudonym] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120209044702/http://www.dictionaryofarthistorians.org/durantyl.htm |date=2012-02-09 }}, Dictionary of Art Historians

Duranty supported the realist cause and later the Impressionists. He was challenged to a duel in 1870 by Édouard Manet over an affront. He was a friend of Edgar Degas, who painted a celebrated portrait of him in 1879 (Burrell Collection, Glasgow). He was a frequent visitor to the Café Guerbois.

Duranty adopted 'truth' as the slogan of his short-lived journal Réalisme (1856–57), and in the second volume he composed principles of realism. Duranty is the author of The New Painting.