That Time Manet Dueled One of His Critics
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That Time Manet Dueled One of His Critics Skip to content Henri Fantin-Latour depicted both Manet (standing third from right) and Duranty (seated first on left) in his 1864 paiting "Hommage à Delacroix." (image via Wikimedia Commons ) On the morning of February 23, 1870, painter Edouard Manet and art critic Edmond Duranty traveled to the Saint-Germain-en-Laye forest on the outskirts of Paris. Relations between the two former friends had become tense: After Duranty published a lukewarm review of Manet’s work, the artist reportedly slapped the writer at the popular Café Guerbois.