Julien Tanguy (art dealer)

Julien François Tanguy, called Père Tanguy (June 28, 1825, Plédran, Brittany - February 6, 1894, Paris) was a French art dealer, gallery owner, art collector, and patron who was one of the first buyers of Impressionist paintings.

The painter and writer Émile Bernard described Tanguy's gallery as the birthplace of Symbolism and the Pont-Aven school.

[4] Among the paintings by Cézanne owned by Tanguy was the Portrait of Achille Emperaire, currently in the collection of the Musée d'Orsay.

[5] Vincent van Gogh, who had left the Netherlands and stayed with his brother Theo in Paris since March 1886, created three portraits of the paint dealer and gallery owner.

[6] Octave Mirbeau honored the patron after his death in L'Écho de Paris on February 13, 1894.

On June 2, 1894, at the suggestion of Mirbeau, painter friends auctioned off their own works, the proceeds of which were intended to support his widow, in the Hôtel Drouot.