Jules-Antoine Castagnary, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Jules-Antoine Castagnary

French art critic

Date of Birth: 11-Apr-1830

Place of Birth: Saintes, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France

Date of Death: 11-May-1888

Profession: politician, journalist, art critic

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Aries


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About Jules-Antoine Castagnary

  • Jules-Antoine Castagnary (11 April 1830 – 11 May 1888) was a French liberal politician, journalist and progressive and influential art critic, who embraced the new term "Impressionist" in his positive and perceptive review of the first Impressionist show, in Le Siècle, 29 April 1874.Born at Saintes, Charente-Maritime, in the west of France, Castagnary lived in Paris, where he contributed to Le Monde illustrĂ©, Le Siècle and Le Nain jaune, a political journal of Liberal tendencies.
  • He reviewed the annual Paris salons from 1857 to 1879.
  • He organized the provincial Republican press at the time of the Siege of Paris (1870–71).
  • After the collapse of the French Second Empire, Castagnary, who was an anti-clerical republican, developed a secondary political career.
  • He became a member of the municipal council of Paris (1874), was the director of the École nationale supĂ©rieure des Beaux-Arts (1887), and sat on the Conseil d'État (1879) and the ComitĂ© des monuments historiques.
  • He was appointed to a ministerial post in the short-lived LĂ©on Gambetta cabinet in 1881, but resigned when that ministry fell 1 January 1882.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, is now in the MusĂ©e d'Orsay, Paris.
  • The correspondence between the two men is a fundamental document in analyzing Courbet's life and output.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.

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