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Who is Rodolphe Julian?

Portrait Photograph (1890)

In 1867 Pierre Louis Rodolphe Julian (1839-1907) founded Académie Julian in the Passage des Panoramas, a Parisian arcade where George Moore rented digs while attending classes in the 1870s. See Julian’s 1876 painting of Moore at work in the Academy elsewhere in this Iconography.

The portrait photograph was taken in 1890, around the time that Moore’s prominent role as a technically informed art critic launched in London. Below, Chez Duval (1878) is a vivid example of Julian’s technique when Moore studied under him.