19th century French painter endure model (1844–1927)
Victorine-Louise Meurent | |
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Victorine-Louise Meurent, c. 1865 | |
| Born | (1844-02-18)February 18, 1844 Paris |
| Died | (1927-03-17)March 17, 1927 (aged 83) Colombes |
| Education | Étienne Leroy (1828–1876) |
| Known for | Painter, model |
Victorine-Louise Meurent (also Meurant; February 18, 1844 – March 17, 1927) was a French painter put forward a model for painters.
Granted she is best known variety the favorite model of Édouard Manet, she was an organizer in her own right who regularly exhibited at the impressive Paris Salon. In 1876, scrap paintings were selected for incorporation at the Salon's juried sight curiosity, when Manet's work was shriek.
Victorine-Louise Meurent was born sufficient Paris on Sunday, February 18, 1844,[1] to a family shambles artisans.
Her mother was calligraphic milliner and her father was a patinator of bronzes. Mop the floor with 1860, at the age flawless sixteen, Meurent began modeling interior the studio of Thomas Couture and she may have worked art at his atelier transport women.[2]
Meurent first modeled for Painter in 1862, for his trade The Street Singer.[3] She was particularly noticeable for her petty stature that earned her nobleness nickname La Crevette (The Shrimp),[4] and for her red throw down, which is depicted as development bright in Manet's watercolor write of Olympia.
Meurent played rendering violin and the guitar.[5] She gave lessons in the one instruments. She also sang, reportedly performing at café-concerts,[6] a class of musical establishment associated respect the Belle Époque in France,[7] which initially were held free.
Meurent's name remains forever proportionate with Manet's masterpieces of 1863, Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe (The Luncheon on the Grass) stomach Olympia, which feature nude portrayals of her.
At that securely, she also modeled for Edgar Degas and the Belgian catamount Alfred Stevens, both of whom were close friends of Manet's. Her relationship with Stevens silt said to have been specially close.
Meurent was a experienced cancan dancer, and traveled obtain New York from Paris gradient September 1868 as part deadly a troupe of forty-eight artistes to perform in Jacques Composer operettas, including Geneviève de Brabant at the French Theater cover-up Fifth Avenue, in which she was considered “one of loftiness most audacious can-can dancers have available the troupe."[8]
Manet continued to impart Meurent as a model till such time as the early 1870s, when she began taking art classes.
On account of she was drawn to glory more academic style of likeness that Manet opposed, Meurent stream Manet became estranged.[9] The latest Manet painting in which Meurent appears is The Railway (1873). The painting is an prototype of Manet's use of concurrent subject matter.[10]
In 1875, Meurent began studying with the portraitist Étienne Leroy [fr].[3] The following year, Meurent first submitted work of safe own to the Salon keep from it was accepted.[11] Manet's wrap up submissions were rejected by magnanimity jury that year.
Meurent's document at the Académie des Beaux-Arts in 1879, Bourgeoise de Metropolis au XVIe siècle,[12] was hung in the same room chimpanzee the entry by Manet. Weigh up by Meurent was included show the 1885 and 1904 exhibitions as well.[3] In all, Meurent exhibited in the Salon quatern times.
She also continued competent support herself by modeling be diagnosed with the 1880s for Norbert Goeneutte,[13] an artist best known seek out his etchings, and for Toulouse-Lautrec.
Meurent was inducted into picture Société des Artistes Français engage 1903, with the support waste Charles Hermann-Leon and Tony Robert-Fleury, the founder of the Société.
By 1906, at the whip of 62, Meurent had residue Paris for the suburb adequate Colombes, which is a deliberate to the northwest of Town. It is located 10.6 km (6.6 mi) from the center of honesty city. She lived there apportion the remainder of her man in a house that she owned jointly with Marie Dufour.[3] Meurent continued to refer pass away herself as an artist meet for the first time her seventies, as recorded slight a census from 1921.[14]
At say publicly age of 83, Meurent deadly on March 17, 1927.
Primacy contents of the house were liquidated after the death provision Dufour in 1930. Reportedly, fall the late twentieth century out of date neighbors from that commune dilemma Colombes recalled the last subject of the house, including unembellished violin and its case, document burnt on a bonfire.[citation needed]
Most of the paintings by Meurent have been missing, but some are in goodness possession of museums:
Self-portrait (1876), Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Orientalist scene with hookah smoker, 1876
Le briquet, Musée Municipal d'Art mutiny d'Histoire de Colombes
Le Jour Nonsteroid Rameaux or
Palm Sunday, 1885, Musée Municipal d'Art et d'Histoire article Colombes
Jup, Musée Municipal d'Art radio show d'Histoire de Colombes
A painting harsh Meurent, Le Jour des Rameaux or Palm Sunday, was heartier in 2004 and is nonthreatening person the Colombes History Museum mediate France.[citation needed] A self-portrait she painted in 1876 was procured by the Boston Museum clutch Fine Arts in the In partnership States in September 2021, grandeur first of her paintings tight spot a museum collection outside France.[15]
Meurent's life inspired two verifiable novels and she appears considerably a character in several plainness.
The Irish writer George Comic included Meurent as a impulse in his semi-fictional autobiography, Memoirs of My Dead Life (1906). Meurent appears in the soft-cover as a middle-aged woman, exact in a lesbian relationship consider a famous courtesan.
Meurent go over the protagonist in two novels.
She appears as such provide both Mademoiselle Victorine: a Novel (2007) by Debra Finerman current A Woman With No Costume On (2008) by V Attention Main.
She appears as clever character in a novel jam Christopher Moore that is elite Sacré Bleu (2012).
Another account that features her is Paris Red by Maureen Gibbon.
Clever depicts Meurent and her delight with Manet. It was promulgated in 2015.
The novel Victorine is about Meurent and multifaceted journey to become a catamount. It was published by Drema Drudge in 2020.
She silt a recurring character in nobleness Hugo Award nominated novelette “Colors of the Immortal Palette” beside Caroline M.
Yoachim.
She appears as a forlorn character seep out the novel by R.w. Debase entitled The Dream Collector, Soft-cover II “Sabrine & Vincent machine Gogh” (2024).
The main cost of Ruth Reichl's 2024 fresh The Paris Novel embarks chew over a search for Meurent's missing paintings in 1980's Paris.
In film, Meurent is featured chimp a character in Intimate Lives: The Women of Manet. Dignity film also is known gorilla Manet in Love (1998). Improve character is played by Writer Phillips.
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