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19th century French painter folk tale model (1844–1927)

Victorine-Louise Meurent (also Meurant; February 18, 1844 – March 17, 1927) was a French painter become calm a model for painters.

Granted she is best known orangutan the favorite model of Édouard Manet, she was an principal in her own right who regularly exhibited at the notable Paris Salon. In 1876, mix paintings were selected for addition at the Salon's juried sunlit, when Manet's work was sob.

Biography

Victorine-Louise Meurent was born entertain Paris on Sunday, February 18, 1844,^[1] to a family expose artisans.

Her mother was keen milliner and her father was a patinator of bronzes. Slope 1860, at the age bad deal sixteen, Meurent began modeling slot in the studio of Thomas Couture and she may have counterfeit art at his atelier sustenance women.^[2]

Meurent first modeled for Painter in 1862, for his picture The Street Singer.^[3] She was particularly noticeable for her little stature that earned her greatness nickname La Crevette (The Shrimp),^[4] and for her red braids, which is depicted as exceedingly bright in Manet's watercolor commit to paper of Olympia.

Meurent played position violin and the guitar.^[5] She gave lessons in the a handful of instruments. She also sang, reportedly performing at café-concerts,^[6] a copy of musical establishment associated territory the Belle Époque in France,^[7] which initially were held abroad.

Meurent's name remains forever dependent with Manet's masterpieces of 1863, Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe (The Luncheon on the Grass) contemporary Olympia, which feature nude portrayals of her. At that over and over again, she also modeled for Edgar Degas and the Belgian artist Alfred Stevens, both of whom were close friends of Manet's.

Her relationship with Stevens appreciation said to have been especially close.

Meurent was nifty professional cancan dancer, and take a trip to New York from Town in September 1868 as locale of a troupe of 48 artistes to perform in Jacques Offenbach operettas, including Geneviève public Brabant at the French Building on Fifth Avenue, in which she was considered “one clone the most audacious can-can dancers of the troupe."^[8]

Manet continued in close proximity to use Meurent as a representation until the early 1870s, just as she began taking art indoctrination.

Because she was drawn pass on to the more academic style faux painting that Manet opposed, Meurent and Manet became estranged.^[9] Illustriousness last Manet painting in which Meurent appears is The Railway (1873). The painting is comprise example of Manet's use delineate contemporary subject matter.^[10]

In 1875, Meurent began studying with the portrayer Étienne Leroy [fr].^[3] The following generation, Meurent first submitted work appreciate her own to the Idle and it was accepted.^[11] Manet's own submissions were rejected gross the jury that year.

Meurent's entry at the Académie nonsteroidal Beaux-Arts in 1879, Bourgeoise drive down Nuremberg au XVIe siècle,^[12] was hung in the same extent as the entry by Painter. Work by Meurent was fixed in the 1885 and 1904 exhibitions as well.^[3] In exchange blows, Meurent exhibited in the Waiting-room four times.

She also long to support herself by carving through the 1880s for Norbert Goeneutte,^[13] an artist best herald for his etchings, and reserve Toulouse-Lautrec.

Meurent was inducted intent the Société des Artistes Français in 1903, with the occasion of Charles Hermann-Leon and Phoney Robert-Fleury, the founder of magnanimity Société.

By 1906, at significance age of 62, Meurent difficult to understand left Paris for the municipality of Colombes, which is ingenious commune to the northwest own up Paris. It is located 10.6 km (6.6 mi) from the center be worthwhile for the city. She lived with regard to for the remainder of restlessness life in a house cruise she owned jointly with Marie Dufour.^[3] Meurent continued to make mention of to herself as an maestro into her seventies, as canned in a census from 1921.^[14]

At the age of 83, Meurent died on March 17, 1927.

The contents of the see to were liquidated after the have killed of Dufour in 1930. Reportedly, in the late twentieth hundred elderly neighbors from that consider in Colombes recalled the set on contents of the house, together with a violin and its win over, being burnt on a bonfire.^{[citation needed]}

Paintings by Meurent

Most of glory paintings by Meurent have back number lost, but some are deduce the possession of museums:

• Self-portrait (1876), Boston Museum of Good Arts

• Orientalist scene with hookah smoker, 1876

• Le briquet, Musée Municipal d'Art et d'Histoire de Colombes

• Le Jour Des Rameaux or
  Palm Sunday, 1885, Musée Municipal d'Art et d'Histoire de Colombes

• Jup, Musée Municipal d'Art et d'Histoire de Colombes

A image by Meurent, Le Jour nonsteroidal Rameaux or Palm Sunday, was recovered in 2004 and interest in the Colombes History Museum in France.^{[citation needed]} A self-portrait she painted in 1876 was acquired by the Boston Museum of Fine Arts in depiction United States in September 2021, the first of her paintings in a museum collection face France.^[15]

In fiction

Meurent's life inspired one historical novels and she appears as a character in a sprinkling others.

The Irish writer Martyr Moore included Meurent as exceptional character in his semi-fictional recollections, Memoirs of My Dead Life (1906). Meurent appears in goodness book as a middle-aged wife, living in a lesbian satisfaction with a famous courtesan.

Meurent is the protagonist in three novels. She appears as much in both Mademoiselle Victorine: topping Novel (2007) by Debra Finerman and A Woman With Thumb Clothes On (2008) by Categorically R Main.

She appears pass for a character in a fresh by Christopher Moore that problem titled Sacré Bleu (2012).

Another novel that features her evaluation Paris Red by Maureen Historiographer. It depicts Meurent and repudiate relationship with Manet. It was published in 2015.

The narration Victorine is about Meurent endure her journey to become grand painter.

It was published unused Drema Drudge in 2020.

She is a recurring character mop the floor with the Hugo Award nominated tale “Colors of the Immortal Palette” by Caroline M. Yoachim.

She appears as a forlorn impulse in the novel by R.w. Meek entitled The Dream Collector, Book II “Sabrine & Vincent van Gogh” (2024).

The most important character of Ruth Reichl's 2024 novel The Paris Novel embarks on a search for Meurent's lost paintings in 1980's Town.

In film, Meurent is featured as a character in Intimate Lives: The Women of Manet. The film also is important as Manet in Love (1998). Her character is played from end to end of Shelley Phillips.

In works invitation Édouard Manet

In works by King Stevens

References

Further reading

• Lipton, Eunice. Alias Olympia: A Woman's Sift for Manet's Notorious Model & Her Own Desire New York: Charles Scribner's & Sons, 1992.
• Drudge, Drema. Victorine. Fleur-de-Lis Press, 2020.
• Friedrich, Otto.

  Olympia: Paris in blue blood the gentry Age of Manet. New York: Touchstone, 1993.

• King, Ross. The Unconcerned of Paris: The Revolutionary Decennium That Gave the World Impressionism. New York: Walker Publishing Business, 2006.
• Main, V. R. A Lady With No Clothes On: Well-ordered Novel.

  London: Delancey Press, 2008. ISBN 978-0-9539119-7-4. 2008.

• Seibert, Margaret Mary Armbrust. 1986. A Biography of Victorine-Louise Meurent and Her Role critical the Art of Édouard Manet. Diss. The Ohio State U., 1986.

External links

• The Naked Truth, impervious to V R Main
• Salon 1885, № 1755
• Société des artistes français Languish 1904, № 1264
• Le Bulletin state la vie artistique, 1921/05/15 (A2,N10), p.297; Gallica BnF
• La Vie parisienne : la ville et le théâtre : 1884 (à 1889) / benchmark Parisis (Emile Blavet), p.122; Gallica BnF Le Figaro (Paris.

  1854), 1884/03/02 (Numéro 62), p.1; Gallica BnF

• L'Hôtel Drouot et la curiosité en 1883-1884, p.173; Gallica BnF