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Abstract
Probably no color merchant will ever figure as importantly in art history as Père Tanguy, whose unassuming little shop in the Rue Clauzel was a meeting place for Impressionist painters. In the sixties he peddled paints and brushes in the forest at Fontainebleau; by 1870 he knew Monet, Renoir, Pissarro, and Degas. As a participant in the Commune, he was saved from a death sentence by Degas’ friend, the amateur Impressionist and military captain Henri Rouart. Tanguy's friendship was especially important for Cézanne; he extended the painter considerable credit, showed his canvases to prospective clients and to other artists, and was at times his only point of contact in Paris.