Charles Émile Auguste DURAND dit CAROLUS-DURAN (Lille 1837 - - Lot 70

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Charles Émile Auguste DURAND dit CAROLUS-DURAN (Lille 1837 - - Lot 70
Charles Émile Auguste DURAND dit CAROLUS-DURAN (Lille 1837 - Paris 1917) Portrait of Émile Aucante (1822-1908) Canvas Signed and dated on the left "Carolus Duran / 1860". 65 x 54 cm (old restorations) Provenance: Given by the model to Mr. Ferdinand Alapetite, his friend, Mayor of Clamecy; always remained in the family. Émile Aucante was a publisher and journalist, godson and close collaborator of George Sand. He began his career as a fervent disciple of the theoretician Pierre Leroux, for whom he contributed to the Revue Sociale. Condemned to exile during the coup d'état of 1851, he was called by George Sand, who made him her secretary in Nohant, inheriting all her manuscripts and papers. He then negotiated all publications with publishers on her behalf. In 1858, following Orsini's attempt on the life of Emperor Napoleon III, Émile Aucante was arrested once again. Our painting shows him at the age of 38, in his period as a political opponent of the Second Empire. Under the Third Republic, he developed his publishing activities, directing L'Univers Illustré and then several collections at Calmann-Lévy, alongside his printing business.
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