Juste Milieu
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The Juste Milieu art movement (meaning “middle way” or “happy medium”) is a term originally used to describe a form of painting and philosophy that reconciled two dominant art movements in 19th century France
between the conservative, academic artists and the independent artists known as the Impressionists
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France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
between the conservative, academic artists and the independent artists known as the Impressionists
Impressionism
Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement that originated with a group of Paris-based artists whose independent exhibitions brought them to prominence during the 1870s and 1880s...
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Prominent Juste Milieu painters
- Carolus-DuranCarolus-DuranCharles Auguste Émile Durand, known as Carolus-Duran , was a French painter and art instructor. He is noted for his stylish depictions of members of high society in Third Republic France.-Biography:...
- Ernest Ange Duez
- Albert Besnard
- Jean-Francois RaffaelliJean-François RaffaëlliJean-François Raffaëlli was a French realist painter, sculptor, and printmaker who exhibited with the Impressionists. He was also active as an actor and writer....
- Felix Braquemond
- M. Pradier