Ernest Ange Duez

His style, between that of the conservative Paris Salon and Impressionism, has been called juste milieu, and he has been compared to Alfred Stevens, Giuseppe De Nittis,[2] and James Tissot.

[1] He first exhibited at the Salon in 1868 with Mater Dolorosa,[4] and achieved success there in 1874 with a third-class medal for his paintings Splendeur and Misère.

[5] Genre scenes depicting modern life included Au restaurant Le Doyen (1878) and Café sur la Terrasse (1890).

[1] His wife, Amélie Duez, was a well-known amateur singer, and was the first to perform Gabriel Fauré's newly composed songs "Mandoline" and "En sourdine" (the first two songs of Cinq mélodies "de Venise"), while Fauré and the couple were staying as guests of the Princesse de Polignac in Venice in 1891.

[7] Duez's circle also included the painters Paul-Albert Besnard, Jacques-Émile Blanche and Roger-Joseph Jourdain.