Carolus-Duran was the name adopted by the French painter
Charles Auguste Émile Durand (
July 4, 1837 -
1917), who was born at
Lille.
He studied at the Lille Academy and then at the
Académie des Beaux-Arts in
Paris, and in 1861 to
Italy and
Spain for further study, especially devoting himself to the pictures of
Velázquez. His subject picture
Murdered, or
The Assassination (1866), was one of his first successes, and is now in the Lille museum, but he became best known afterwards as a portrait painter, and as the head of one of the principal
ateliers in Paris, where some of the most brilliant artists of a later generation were his pupils.
He took part in 1890 in the creation of the National Society of French Art (
Société Nationale des Beaux Arts).
His
Lady with the Glove (1869), a portrait of his own wife, was bought for the
Luxembourg Museum in Paris. In 1889 he was made a commander of the
Legion of Honour. He became a member of the Académie des Beaux-arts in 1904, and in the next year was appointed director of the French academy at Rome in succession to
Eugène Guillaume. 
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