Louis Edmond Duranty

Louis Edmond Duranty (6 June 1833 – 9 April 1880) was a prolific French novelist and art critic.

He was a friend of Edgar Degas, who painted a celebrated portrait of him in 1879 (Burrell Collection, Glasgow).

Duranty adopted 'truth' as the slogan of his short-lived journal Réalisme (1856–57), and in the second volume he composed principles of realism.

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