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Theologies of Revolution: Medieval to Modern Europe

Workshop

Date: 20 and 21 May 2019
Place: Academic Conference Center (AKC, Husova 4a,
Prague 1) et Faculté des Lettres de l’Université Charles, salle 104 (FF UK, náměstí Jana Palacha 2, Prague 1)
Organized by: Martin Pjecha (CEU / CEFRES)
Organized in partnership with: CEFRES, Centre for Medieval Studies (CMS), Central European University (CEU)
Language: English

Keynote speakers

  • Phillip Haberkern (Boston University) : When did Christians Become Revolutionary? A Reflection on Hannah Arendt
  • Matthias Riedl (Central European University, Budapest) Apocalyptic Platonism: The Thought of Thomas Müntzer

Report to the call for contributions.

20th May 2019

 

10:00 – Introductory comments

10:30-12:00 – Panel 1: Urban and noble rebellion in the 17th century

  • Rik Sowden (University of Birmingham): Religion and rebellion in Nottingham during the British Civil wars – (discussant: Vladimír Urbánek)
  • Márton Zászkaliczky (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Institute for Literary Studies, Budapest): Calvinist Political Theology in the Bocskai Rebellion (1604-1606) – (discussant: Vladimír Urbánek)

12:00-13:00 – Lunch

13:00-14:20 – Panel 2: 20th century interpretations

  • Behrang Pourhosseini (University Paris 8): From Christian Victimary Politics to Shi’ite Messianism : A Debate around the Iranian Revolution – (discussant: Thomas C. Mercier)
  • Giacomo Maria Arrigo (KU Leuwen/University of Calabria): Gnosticism and Revolution: Towards an Explanatory Pattern – (discussant: Matthias Riedl)

14:20-14:40 – Coffee break

14:40-16:00 – Panel 3: Imperial and Soviet Russia

  • Anastasia Papushina (CEU, Budapest): Martyrs and heroes: revisiting religious patterns in revolutionary times – (discussant: Hanuš Nykl)
  • Daniel García Augusto Porras (Universitat Ramon Llull (Barcelona)/Universidad Pontificia Comillas ):  Revolution as political religion in Russia: Dostoevsky’s Grand Inquisitor and its interpreters in Russian religious thought – (discussant: Hanuš Nykl)

16:00-16:20 – Coffee break

16:30-18:00 – Keynote 1

  • Matthias Riedl (CEU, Budapest): Apocalyptic Platonism: The Thought of Thomas Müntzer

21st May 2019 

 

10:00-11:20 – Panel 4: The French Revolution

  • Mathias Sonnleithner (MLU, Halle-Wittenberg) : Robespierre’s Belief to Be God’s Chosen – A Key Element of the Political Theology of the Terror – (discussant: Jakub Štofaník)
  • Amirpash Tavakkoli (EHESS, Paris) : French revolution, a Christian reading – (discussant: Jakub Štofaník)

11:20-11:50 – coffee break

11:50-13:10 – Panel 5: Violence and bliss in medieval Bohemia

  • Pavlína Cermanová (CMS, Prague): The Theology of Hussite Innocence – (discussant: Phillip Haberkern)
  • Martin Pjecha (CEU, Budapest/CEFRES, Prague): “Cosmic” revolution in radical Hussitism – (discussant: Phillip Haberkern)

13:10-14:30 – Lunch

14:30-16:30 – Panel 6: Intellectual transfers and comparisons in early modernity

  • Sam Gilchrist Hall (Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary, Budapest): “But I do not doubt the people”: Thomas Müntzer and King Lear – (discussant: Matthias Riedl)
  • Luke Collison (Kingston University London): Hobbes and ‘Religion’ on the Threshold of Modernity – (discussant: Matthias Riedl)
  • Benjamin Heidenreich (University of Würzburg): Huldrich Zwingli´s influence on the “Peasants´ War” of 1525 – (discussant: Phillip Haberkern)

16:30-16:50 – Coffee break

17:30-19:00 – Keynote 2

  • Phillip Haberkern (Boston University): When did Christians Become Revolutionary? A Reflection on Hannah Arendt
    FF UK, salle 104 (náměstí Jana Palacha 2, Prague 1)

19:00 – Closing remarks

 

What Is an Archive in India and Europe?

International Workshop

Organizers: Benedetta Zaccarello (CEFRES) & Kannan Muthukrishnan (French Institute in Pondicherry)
Partners: CEFRES & French Institute in Pondicherry
Where: French Institute in Pondicherry, India
When: 7 & 8 March 2019                                                                                    Language: English

Programme

March 7th, 2019

9:30 AM Opening remarks

Prof. Frédéric Landy, director, IFP

Session 1: Methodological, historical and theoretical standpoints
  • Dr. Benedetta Zaccarello, CEFRES (CNRS-MEAE, Prague) and Mr. Kannan M. (IFP), introductory remarks

11 AM Coffee break

11:15 AM

  • Dr. Jayanta Sengupta (secretary and curator at Victoria Memorial, Kolkata), on the intercultural issues related to archival practices
  • Prof. Subbarayalu (IFP), on archives and inscriptions: an historical overview

1 PM Lunch

2 PM

Living memories: past and present of some Indian archives

  • Mr. Peter Heehs (historian, former archiviste, Sri Aurobindo Ashram Archives), on the history of Sri Aurobindo’s Archives
  • Mr. Rengaiyah Murugan (Librarian, MIDS, Chennai), on Tamil manuscripts and archives
  • Dr.  Roland  Wittje  (IIT,  Chennai),  collections  and  archives: history of science and technology

4 PM Coffee break

4:15 PM

  • Dr. Anupama K. (IFP), on interrelated collections at the Ecology Department of IFP
  • Mr. Venkat Srinivasan (Archiviste, IIS, Bangalore), on the digital representation of the archives at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

Visit of the IFP collections (palm leaf manuscripts with Dr. Devi Prasad, collections of photographs with Mr. Ramesh Kumar and collections of Ecology with Dr. Anupama K.)

7.30 PM Dinner at IFP

March 8th, 2019

Session 2: Archives beyond borders and mindsets

Archives: trans-cultures and post colonialisms

9:30 AM

  • Prof. Albert Dichy, IMEC, Caen, France, head of literary collections
  • Dr. Chandramohan (Curator, GOML, Chennai), on the colonial period and the palm leaf and paper manuscripts from the “McKenzie” collection

11 AM Coffee break

11:30 AM

  • Mr. Richard Hartz (Researcher, Sri Aurobindo Ashram Archives), on the intercultural aspects of Sri Aurobindo’s manuscripts
  • Dr. G. Sundar (Director, Roja Muthaiah Research Library, Chennai), on archiving 20th century Tamil

1 PM Lunch

2 PM

Oral traditions and visual heritage in the age of digital archives

  • Dr. C.S Lakshmi (director, SPARROW, Sound and Picture Archives for Research on Women, Mumbai), on archiving women’s testimonies and archives of orality
  • Mr. Prashant Parvatneni (Kabir Project, Bangalore), on building the “Kabir Project” Archive
  • Ms. Ranjani and Mr. Faizal (Keystone Foundation), on the creation of the Keystone Foundation Resource Centre, Nilgiris

4 PM Coffee break

4:15 PM

  • Dr. Alexandra De Heering (IFP), on accessibility to visual archives
  • Mr. Gopinath Sricandane (IFP), on the visual medium of archives
  • Dr. Pierre Triomphe (Institut National du Patrimoine, Paris), on heritage and archives

5:30 PM Roundtable discussion

Porcine Futures 1: Re-negotiating “Wilderness” in More-than-human Worlds

Workshop

Organized by the team of Bewildering Boar project at CEFRES – Aníbal Arregui, Luděk Brož, Marianna Szczygielska and Virginie Vaté together with Erica von Essen (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences) kindly supported by the Swedish Hunting Association through the grant “Challenges Facing Swedish Hunting Ethics in Post-Modernity”.
When: 16-17 October 2018
Where: Prague, AV ČR, Národní 18, Prague 1
Language: English

See the call for paper here.

Programme

TUESDAY 16 OCTOBER 2018

(joint programme with Anthropology of Hunting & Conservation Network)

9.00 – 9.10 Welcome address (T. Petrasova, J. Woitsch)

9.10 – 9.20 Introduction (A. Arregui, L. Broz, M. Szczygielska, V. Vaté & E. von Essen) 

9.20 – 10.35 Session 1 (chair: E. von Essen)

9.20 – 9.45  Engaging with Hunting: Mosaic Pieces of Larger Pictures
Garry Marvin (University of Roehampton, London)

9.45 – 10.10 Hunters and Wild Boars: the (inter)corporeality of a relationship
Thorsten Gieser (University of Koblenz-Landau)

10.10 – 10.35 Wild boar hunting in the French Alps: between “objectivation” and “subjectivation” of animals
Coralie Mounet (University of Grenoble)

Coffee break

10.55 – 12.35 Session 2 (chair: A. Arregui)

10.55 – 11.20 “Ça c’est pas d’la chasse ! – That’s not hunting!” Perspectives on wild boar hunting in Southern Champagne and Northern Burgundy
Virginie Vaté (CNRS, CEFRES)

11.20 – 11.45 Wild boar hunting and population control in France. An analysis of public policies and their consequences for the relationship between hunters and wildlife
Alain Gigounoux  (Departmental Federation of hunters of Lot and Garonne)

11.45 – 12.10 Transgressing the ‘wild’:  duck trapping machines and wild boar spaces in the Netherlands
Eugenie van Heijgen (Wageningen University)

12.10 – 12.35 Hunting of wild boar in Uruguay: global discourses and local conflicts
Juan Martin Dabezies (Universidad de la Républica, Montevido)

Lunch

13.45 – 15.00 Session 3 (chair: P. Du Plessis)

13.45 – 14.10 How Wild Boar Hunting is Becoming a Battleground
Erica von Essen (Swedish Biodiversity Center, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala

14.10 – 14.35 Animal Welfare Evaluation of Wild Boar (Sus scrofa) Trapping
Åsa Fahlman (Johan Lindsjö, Therese Arvén Norling, Odd Höglund, Petter Kjellander, Erik O. Ågren, Mats Stridsberg, and Ulrika A. Bergvall

14.35 – 15.00 Adapting Hunting and its Conservation
KAVBH Avi (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology and the School of Anthropology and Conservation, University of Kent)

Coffee break

15.30 – 17.00 Discussion 1 (chair: L. Broz)

(coffee available, stretching pauses will be made ad hoc)

19.30 The evening programme

WEDNESDAY 17 OCTOBER 2018

9.15 – 10.45 Session 4 (chair: M. Szczygielska)

9.15 – 9.40 Climatic effects on wild boar population dynamics
Sebastian G. Vetter (University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna), Thomas Ruf, Claudia Bieber, Walter Arnold

9.40 – 10.05 Editorial Boar. Animal Amendements on Barcelona Urban Relationality
Anibal G. Arregui (CEFRES-Charles University)

10.05 – 10.30 Urban Wild Boar Conflict in Barcelona
López-Olvera Jorge R. (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Departament de Medicina i Cirurgia Animal), Castillo-Contreras Raquel, Mentaberre Gregorio, González-Crespo Carlos, Conejero Carles, Fernández-Aguilar Xavier, Colom-Cadena Andreu, Lavín Santiago

Coffee break

10.50 – 12.30 Session 5 (chair: KAVBH Avi)  

10.50 – 11.15 A Tale of Two Boars: Ungulate Management in Italy and Germany
Michael Gibbert (University of Lugano), Stefano Giacomelli, Roberto Viganò

11.15 – 11.40 Mess, Risk and Enchantment: disturbing place with reintroduced wild boar
Kieran O’Mahony (Cardiff University)

11.40 – 12.05 Boar(der) Control. Governing Mobile Wild Boars in the European Border Regime
Larissa Fleischmann (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg)

12.05 – 12.30 Fences of “Self-Devouring Growth”: Infrastructures of Containment and their Unintended Effects
Pierre Du Plessis (Aarhus University)

Lunch – Lunchtime address (J. Heurtaux) 

14.00 – 15.15 Session 6 (chair: L. Fleischmann) 

14.00 – 14.25 Wild Thing: Lessons from Wild Boars Featured in Polish and Czechoslovak Cinema
Marianna Szczygielska (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin)

14.25 – 14.50 Of past and present pig slaughters: changing consumption trajectories and reconfiguring the future in a Romanian mountainous commune
Teodora Goea (University of Manchester)

14.50 – 15.15 Facing the Pig Multiple: Knowledge Drift Towards Porcine Futures
Ludek Broz (Institute of Ethnology, Czech Academy of Sciences, CEFRES)

Coffee break

15.45 – 18.00 Discussion 2 (chair: V. Vaté)

(coffee available, stretching pauses will be made ad hoc)

19.00 Dinner

Stereotypical Representations of Roma and Jews in Photographs

International Workshop

When: 15 October 2018
Where: French Institute in Prague (Štěpánská 35, Prague 1)
Organizers: Prague Forum for Romani Histories (Institute of Contemporary History, Czech Academy of Sciences), Seminar of Romani Studies (Faculty of Arts, Charles University), CEFRES and French Institute in Prague
Language: English (simultaneous translation into Czech will be available)

PROGRAMME

16:30-18:00
HISTORICAL SURVEY
Ilsen About (National Centre for Scientific Research in Paris and member of the Centre Georg Simmel, École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris)
Counter-Image and Self-Image
Roma and Sinti in the History of the Photographic Medium

How Roma and Sinti have been represented through the lens of photography interrogates the making of stereotypical iconographies and the functions of such iconography in political processes of stigmatisation, exclusion or repression. It also questions the ambivalence of negotiated and self-constructed images, the professionalization of modelling and of a specialised production of specific photographic motives. Behind the screen made by objectified bodies and faces, individuals and social groups have also used and contributed to make other types of photographic images: some are testifying of social life and territorial implementation, other have played significant roles in emancipation strategies, acting as major shifts in political visibility.

Karolina Szymaniak (Department of Jewish Studies of the University of Wroclaw, and research fellow at the Jewish Historical Institute, Warsaw)
In and Out of the Shtetl
Photography and (De)Constructions  of the Eastern European Jewish Difference

In both Jewish and non-Jewish discourses and visual practices, the shtetl came to epitomize the Eastern European Jewish culture, constructed as radically different from the neighboring cultures. In these constructions, photography played a crucial role. The presentation will look at the history of photographing Jews in Eastern Europe and Jews photographing back, both reproducing and reconstructing stereotypical images. It will discuss different modalities and uses of photography, and their political ramifications. Finally, it will briefly point out to the meanings and uses of the pre-Holocaust photography both in the post-Holocaust era and in the late 20th-century context of the so-called Jewish revival in Eastern Europe.

18:00-18:30
Break with refreshments

18:30-20:00
CURRENT REPRESENTATIONS
Sabin Badžo (Photographer and Artist)
Irene Stehli (Photographer and Artist) – TBC
Comments of Ilsen About and Karolina Szymaniak

When All Roads Led to Paris. Artistic Exchanges Between France and Central Europe in the 19th Century

Workshop

Organizers: Kristýna Hochmuth (ÚDU FF UK, NG) and Adéla Klinerová (ÚDU FF UK, EPHE, CEFRES)
Partners: CEFRES, ÚDU FF UK, ÚDU AV ČR, NG
When & Where: 26-27 June 2018, AV ČR, Národní 3, Prague 1
Languages: French and English

This workshop, organized by CEFRES, the Institute of Art History of the Czech Academy of Sciences (ÚDU AV ČR), the National Gallery in Prague (NG) and the Institute of Art History of the Faculty of Arts of the Charles University (ÚDU FF UK) is open to PhD students, post doctoral students and young researchers. Our discussions will be initiated by a keynote speech by professor Marek Zgórniak, Institute of Art History, Jagiellonian University, Kraków. A complementary program will be open to active participants and public.
The goal of the workshop is to look at French art history from the viewpoint of the cultural transfer theory. It will touch upon various aspects of the spreading of French culture and art (painting, sculpture, architecture, applied arts) but also the fields of museology and cultural heritage protection.

Call for papers.

Opening conference by Marek Zgórniak : “Artistic Exchanges with France During the XIXth Century : The Polish Case”

Marek Zgórniak is a art historian, professor at the Jagellone University of Krakow. The XIXth century architecture – in particular the neo-Renaissance architecture – is one of his main interests, as much as the pre-impressionist French art – his PhD thesis was about the Venitian designs in French painting. Marek Zgórniak worked later on the Polnish painter Jan Matejko, whose paintings were exhibited at the Paris Salon. He also worked on the reasons why gorillas kidnap women in French sculptor Emmanuel Frémiet art.

  • Wokół neorenesansu w architekturze XIX wieku, Kraków 1987 (nouvelle édition: Kraków 2013).
  • Autour du Salon de 1887. Matejko et les Français, in: L. Salomé (éd.), Jeanne d’Arc, les tableaux de l’histoire, Paris 2003, 65–79.
  • Fremiet’s Gorillas: Why Do They Carry off Women?, Artibus et Historiae 27, no 54, 2006, 219–237.
  • Polish students at the Académie Julian until 1919, RIHA Journal, August 2012, nepag.

Invited by the organisers to present the Polish case, Marek Zgórniak will attempt to give an overview of the developments in French-Polish artistic exchange from the late 18th till the early 20th centuries in the country partitioned between three neighbouring powers. The political situation of Polish lands, as well as complex and changing social and ethnic factors make the task difficult, and instead of one “case” one has to deal with cases of several (at least three) fairly distinct regions. The speaker will discuss in brief the state of research, which is patchy and does not always permit to draw conclusions about certain phenomena.

 Program

Tuesday 26 June 2018, room 205 (2nd floor)

9h – 9h30 Registration of participants

9h30 – 10h Opening and introduction

10h – 11h
Keynote lecture by Marek Zgórniak (Jagiellonian University, Kraków)
Artistic Exchanges with France During the 19th Century: The Polish Case

Coffee break

11h30 – 13h30
I. Transmission of style, models, ideas
Chair: Richard Biegel (Charles University, Prague)

Karolina Stefanski (Technical University of Berlin)
Transformation of French Empire Style in Silver from Berlin, Warsaw and Vienna, 1797-1848

Emeline Houssard (Sorbonne University, Paris / Centre André Chastel, Paris)
Paris-Berlin-Vienne, nouveau regard sur les marchés couverts de quartier (1838-1884)

Adéla Klinerová (Charles University, Prague / École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris / CEFRES)
La référence française dans les revues d’architecture du XIXe siècle : le cas des revues publiées par la Société des architectes et ingénieurs du Royaume de Bohême

Lunch break

15h – 18h
II. Experience of the Parisian milieu: Art education, salons, artists’ colonies
Chair: Michael Werner (CNRS / École des Hautes Études en sciences sociales, Paris)

Konrad Niemira (École normale supérieure, Paris / University of Warsaw)
Shopping in Paris? Michał Hieronim Radziwiłł and French Art Market 1788-1802

Kristýna Hochmuth (Charles University, Prague / National Gallery in Prague)
Couture ou Cogniet? La première vague d’artistes tchèques en France

Coffee break

Stéphanie Baumewerd (Technical university of Berlin)
« Steffeck et son école d’après le modèle parisien ». L’atelier de Carl Steffeck (1818-1890) comme exemple de la formation artistique transnationale au XIXe siècle

Stéphane Paccoud (Museum of Fine Arts, Lyon)
« L’école de Paul Delaroche ». Un modèle français pour une peinture d’histoire nationale en Europe centrale

Wednesday 27 June 2018, room 108 (1st floor)

9h – 11h
III. Network: Individual mediators
Chair: Taťána Petrasová (Czech Academy of Sciences)

Réka Krasznai (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest / Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest)
Réseaux et médiateurs – de Gautier à Munkácsy – et leur rôle dans les stratégies d’émergence et de carrière des peintres hongrois à Paris 

Kati Renner (Technical University of Dresden / Berlinische Galerie)
Bringing Paris to Florence. Otto Hettner (1875-1931) and the Dissemination of Modern Artistic Ideas around 1900

Barbara Vujanović (University of Zagreb / Museums of Ivan Meštrović – Meštrović Atelier, Zagreb)
Ivan Meštrović. Exemples de diplomatie culturelle entre Paris et Prague

Coffee break

11h30 – 13h
IV. Network: Transmission of savoir-faire 
Chair: Taťána Petrasová (Czech Academy of Sciences)

Anežka Mikulcová (Charles University, Prague)
French “silhouette” versus Czech “shadow image”

Małgorzata Grąbczewska (University of Gdańsk / Royal Łazienki Museum, Warsaw)
La diffusion de la pensée et du savoir-faire photographique entre la France et la Pologne au XIXe siècle

13h Conclusion

15h
Guided visit of the National Gallery in Prague – Veletržní palace with Kristýna Hochmuth
Including part of the permanent collection as well as the temporary exhibition The End of the Golden Times. Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele and the Viennese modernism.
Meeting point: Entrance hall of the museum, Dukelských hrdinů 47, Prague 7

18h – 19h30
Lecture by Michael Werner (CNRS-EHESS)
Music as a Universal Form of Art? Internationalization of Musical Life and Forming of National Identity in 19th Century Europe

Venue: French Institute in Prague, Štěpánská 35, Prague 1, 5th floor
Language: French with simultaneous translation in Czech

Abstract (FR)
The lecture elaborates on the transformations of European 19th century musical life, with special focus on concerts. Paradoxically, along the internationalisation of this musical life, due to the mobility of the musicians, the constitution of a repertoire, the rise of specific market and press, and the professionalization of musical trades, the interpretative patterns and reception phenomena grew increasingly national. One can even speak of the appropriation of music by national movements. The lecture will call forth a few analytical tools that allow to cast a light on such evolutions and to ground them in a histoire croisée of European cultures.

Debating the Norms of Scientific Writing

International Interdisciplinary Workshop for Young Researchers

Organizer: Julien Wacquez (EHESS, CESPRA, CEFRES)
Partners: CEFRES, Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences, EHESS (Paris)
When & Where: 23rd of May 2018, FLÚ AV ČR, conference room (Jilská 1, Prague 1 110 00)
Language: English

See the call for papers here

See the abstracts of the lectures here: Abstracts.

Since their foundation, social sciences have been questioning the practice of scientific writing as well as its limits and effects. To what extent does writing in itself affect the production of knowledge? How are the norms of scientific writing constantly negotiated? How are scientific texts convincing their readership?

Professors and young researchers are invited, not only to explore such questions, but also to share their own experiences as scientific writers. What kinds of problems do we face when striving to transform our investigations into a text? What kinds of narrative and rhetoric strategies do we implement in order to tackle such problems?

Because writing scientific texts is both a lonely and a collective activity, this workshop aims to develop a better understanding of the writing choices that we can make (between following or transgressing the “accepted” norms of writing of our discipline). 

Program

9:30-10:00 – Welcome

10:00-10:30 – Introduction

Jan Balon (FLÚ AV ČR)

10:30-12:00
Panel 1. (re)Producing new norms of writing
  • Julien Wacquez (EHESS-CESPRA & CEFRES)
    The Ways of Science Fiction in the Study of the Anthropocene
  • Annibal Arregui (CEFRES-FSV UK)
    Straw-Men of Science: “Hologrammatic” Dichotomies as Academic Sparring

Chair: Jan Balon (FLÚ AV ČR)

Lunch break

13:30-15:30
Panel 2. Writing Science and/or Writing Politics

  • John Holmwood (University of Nottingham)
    Writing for Justice. When Other Lives Are at Stake
  • Jitka Wirthová (ISS FSV UK)
    How to Write the Proof: Creating Expertise in Strategic Documents for Educational Reform
  • Abdul Qadar (EHESS-LAS)
    Writing as a Punjabi Native Anthropologist: Understanding the Relationship between Ethnographic Text, Self of an Anthropologist and Representation

Break

16:00-18:00
Panel 3. The Social Scientist as a Writer

  • Jean-Louis Fabiani (EHESS & CEU)
    The Impossible Novelist: Portrait of the Sociologist as a Frustrated Writer
  • Fanny Charrasse (EHESS-LIER)
    Literary but Not Fictional
  • Edouard Chalamet-Denis (EHESS-CESPRA)
    Via Hayden White: Questionning Narrative and Opening Possibles in the Writing of History

Illustration: Edgar Degas, Portrait of Edmond Duranty (1879)