Ernest Ange Duez

Ernest Ange Duez (also known as Ernest-Ange Duez and Ernest Duez, 7 March 1843 – 4 April 1896) was a French painter of genre scenes, portraits, landscapes and religious subjects.

Although he was an admirer of Édouard Manet and owned paintings by Manet, Claude Monet, Edgar Degas and Berthe Morisot, his palette was more subdued than that of most of the Impressionists, and his technique more controlled. 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, and James Tissot. and studied painting under Isidore Pils. and achieved success there in 1874 with a third-class medal for his paintings Splendeur and Misère.

Genre scenes depicting modern life included Au restaurant Le Doyen (1878) and Café sur la Terrasse (1890). In 1879 at the Salon he exhibited the large triptych Saint Cuthbert, Duez's circle also included the painters Paul-Albert Besnard, Jacques-Émile Blanche and Roger-Joseph Jourdain. He was buried in the Parisian Montmartre Cemetery (division 23).

The contents of his studio were auctioned on June 11-12 of this year at the Galerie Georges Petit in Paris.