Career
Duranty supported the realist cause and later the Impressionists. He was challenged to a duel in 1870 by Édouard Manet over an affront. He was a frequent visitor to the Café Guerbois.
Also the author of The New Painting.
Duranty adopted "truth" as the slogan of his short-lived journal Réalisme (1856-1857), and in the second volume he composed principles of realism.