1833 – 1907

French painter, sculptor, journalist and poet. He became a well known art critic in Paris between 1859 and 1872, acting as spokesman and defender of the artistic avant-garde in Paris, most notably Gustave Courbet and Edouard Manet, whose cause he championed in such major Parisian newspapers and journals as Le Salon (1863), L'Etendard (1866-68), Echo des Beaux-Arts (May-July 1870). Astruc was a close friend of Manet, and Manet included his poem 'Olympia, la fille des les' in the Salon catalogue entry for his Olympia in 1865.Show more

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