Carolus-duran

Carolus-Duran

Carolus-Duran was born in Lille. He studied at the Lille Academy and then at the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris. In 1861, he traveled to Italy and Spain for further study, especially devoting himself to the pictures of Velázquez. His dramatic painting "Murdered, or The Assassination" (1866), was one of his first successes, and is now in the Lille museum.