Carolus-Duran Prints

Explore Carolus-Duran prints featuring society portraits, children, family groups and mythological figures. The French painter (1837–1917) combined confident brushwork with a keen eye for expression, dress and pose, creating portraits that range from formal commissions to intimate studies.

Discover portraits of Henri Fantin-Latour and Madame Edgar Stern alongside childhood likenesses, figure paintings and quieter outdoor subjects. Browse fine art prints, framed prints and canvas panels.

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Portrait of Mrs Adolphe Neyt (1871) — Carolus-Duran Print
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Portrait of Étienne Haro (1873) — Carolus-Duran Print
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Portrait of Marguerite and Robert de Broglie (1890) — Carolus-Duran Print
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Portrait of a Woman (1900) — Carolus-Duran Print
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Portrait of Mademoiselle de Lancey (1876) — Carolus-Duran Print
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Portrait of Jean-François Berthelier (1877) — Carolus-Duran Print
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Portrait of Madame Edgar Stern (1889) — Carolus-Duran Print
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Portrait of Augustus Gurnee (1910) — Carolus-Duran Print
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Portrait of Arsène Alexandre (1902) — Carolus-Duran Print
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Portrait of Alexandre Falguière (1870) — Carolus-Duran Print
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Merrymakers (1870) — Carolus-Duran Print
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Portrait of Mrs Henri Fouquier (1876) — Carolus-Duran Print
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Portrait of a Young Girl (1870) — Carolus-Duran Print
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Sketch for the Portrait of Mrs Feydeau — Carolus-Duran Print
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Portrait of Madame Marie Clerc (1874) — Carolus-Duran Print
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Natalie at Ten (1887) — Carolus-Duran Print
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Andromède (Andromeda) — Carolus-Duran Print
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Laura at Seven (1887) — Carolus-Duran Print
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Portrait of the Countess Lily de Roussy de Sales (1888) — Carolus-Duran Print
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Manette Salomon (1883) — Carolus-Duran Print
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Mother and Children (Madame Feydeau and Her Children) (1897) — Carolus-Duran Print
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Portrait of Baron Antoine d’Ezpeleta (1882) — Carolus-Duran Print
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Portrait of Mademoiselle Faure (1873) — Carolus-Duran Print
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La Vision (The Vision) (1883) — Carolus-Duran Print
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Carolus-Duran: Society Portraits and Intimate Studies

A face emerging from a dark background, the sweep of a dress or the turn of a seated figure: Carolus-Duran used these elements to give his portraits a strong sense of presence. His subjects include artists, fashionable society figures, children and members of his own circle. This collection brings those portraits together with mythological paintings, animal studies and outdoor scenes, showing the range of his interests beyond commissioned likenesses.

About Carolus-Duran

Born Charles Auguste Émile Durand in Lille in 1837, Carolus-Duran became a prominent portrait painter and teacher in Paris. His early work embraced bold tonal contrasts and direct observation, while his later career brought considerable success as a society portraitist. He encouraged his pupils to build forms through decisive applications of paint, an approach that helped shape the work of his best-known student, John Singer Sargent.

Portraits of Artists and Society

The collection includes likenesses of Henri Fantin-Latour, Gustave Doré and the sculptor Alexandre Falguière alongside portraits of Madame Edgar Stern, Countess Rattazzi and Mademoiselle de Lancey. These subjects offer different forms of portraiture, from the concentrated study of an individual face to compositions in which clothing, posture and setting play a larger role.

Explore Sargent prints to follow the connection between teacher and pupil, or browse Giovanni Boldini prints for another interpretation of fashionable society portraiture, with a greater emphasis on sweeping movement and animated poses.

Children, Families and Informal Subjects

Works such as Child in a Red Hat, Laura at Seven and Natalie at Ten bring childhood into the collection, while Mother and Children (Madame Feydeau and Her Children) extends the portrait into a family group. These sit alongside individual head studies and sketches, offering a more informal counterpoint to the grander commissioned portraits.

For further family groups, individual likenesses and figure studies, explore our Portraits and People Fine Art Prints collection.

Mythology and Painting beyond the Portrait

Andromède and Hebe turn towards classical mythology, while works such as Promenade in the Woods and View of Venice move beyond the portrait studio. Together with his animal paintings, these subjects reveal an artist whose work encompassed both close observation and imaginative figure composition.

Discover more classical subjects and nineteenth-century figure painting in our Academic Art Prints collection.

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