André Mellerio

André Mellerio in The Mellerio Family by Maurice Denis, 1897. Oil on canvas. Musée d'Orsay, Paris. Homage to Cézanne, Maurice Denis, 1900. Oil on canvas. Musée d'Orsay, Paris. Mellerio is third from the left, wearing a top hat. André Mellerio (1862–1943) was a French art critic who promoted the cause of Symbolism and "idealist" art and appeared in two pictures by Maurice Denis.

Mellerio married Isabelle Leroux, and they had three daughters, Thérèse (1892–?), Marcel (1894–?) and Marthe (1896–?), all shown in the 1897 painting by Denis.

Idealist art Mellerio elaborated the rise of "idealist art" in Le Mouvement idéaliste en peinture, published in Paris in 1896. He traced the emergence of the form to the Exposition des Peintres du Groupe Impressionniste et Synthétiste of the Pont-Aven group at the Café Volpini in Paris, 1889, and attributed its origins to Gustave Moreau, Paul Gauguin, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes and Odilon Redon.

Publications Mellerio, with Noël Clément-Janin, was the editor in chief of L'Estampe et l'Affiche, an illustrated art magazine (Paris, 1897-1899).

Le Mouvement idéaliste en peinture. Paris, 1896. La Lithographie originale en couleurs. Paris, Editions de l'Estampe et l'Affiche, 1898. Odilon Redon. Paris, Secretariat, 1913. Odilon Redon: Peintre, dessinateur et graveur. Paris, Henri Floury, 1923.