Jules Laforgue

Jules Laforgue
Portrait by Franz Skarbina (1885)
Born	(1860-08-16)16 August 1860 Montevideo, Uruguay
Died	20 August 1887(1887-08-20) (aged 27) Paris, France

Jules Laforgue (French: [ʒyl lafɔʁɡ]; 16 August 1860 – 20 August 1887) was a Franco-Uruguayan poet, often referred to as a Symbolist poet. Critics and commentators have also pointed to Impressionism as a direct influence and his poetry has been called "part-symbolist, part-impressionist".^[1] Laforgue was a model for Pierre-Auguste Renoir, including for Renoir's 1881 painting Luncheon of the Boating Party.