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Zacharie Astruc
(1833-1907)
Astruc, Zacharie
(1833-1907).
Sculptor, painter and art critic, he participated in the first
Impressionist
exhibition and also in the Exposition Universelle of 1900.
His defense of living art was consistent and whole-hearted;
he had been a defender of
Courbet,
and was one of the first
to recognize the talent of
Pissarro and
Manet.
To celebrate the Salon des Refusés, he brought out a daily
paper for its duration, in which he lauded the participating
artists, describing Manet as one of the greatest artistic
characters of this time'. In 1865 he hailed the genius of
Monet
and was responsible for introducing him to Manet.
He wrote the introduction of the catalogue of the one-man
exhibition that Manet arranged in a pavilion outside the
Exposition Universelle of 1867. He appears seated beside Manet in
Fantin-Latour's
A Studio in the Batignolles Quarter
(1879; Musée d'Orsay), and was painted by
Bazille
(c. 1869; Collection Frédéric Bazille, Montpellier) and
by Manet (1866; Kunsthalle, Bremen).
Astruc himself executed a bust of Manet and by the 1880s
was receiving recognition as a sculptor, his most popular
work being the
Mask Pedlar
(1883) in the Luxembourg Gardens.
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