In 1995, she received her Master of Arts degree in art history and medieval history and in 2001 a doctorate in art history from the University.!
Paul Durand-Ruel
Identity:
Paul Durand-Ruel, a Paris art dealer, the son of Jean-Marie-Fortuné Durand-Ruel, was part of a French family of dealers.
In 1862 he married Marie-Eva Lafon, the niece of the painter Emil Lafon. They had three sons, Joseph Durand-Ruel, Charles Durand-Ruel and Georges Durand-Ruel, who after 1888 began to take over the running of the family business.
Many of these were organized by Durand-Ruel, who was an early champion of the Impressionists and worked tirelessly over the course of nearly a.
Life:
Paul Durand-Ruel, who became a member of the family firm when illness forced him to leave the army, found himself particularly drawn to the work of Eugène Delacroix and the French school of the 1830s, that is, Thomas Couture, Henri Regnault, William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Alexandre Cabanel, Ernest Hébert and later Emile Lévy.
It was the works of these men, as well as of landscape painters such as Théodore Rousseau, Charles-François Daubigny, Jean-François Millet and Narcisse Diaz, that he began to buy, frequently reserving pictures before the Salon.
He later joined for