19th century French painter with 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 sit a model for painters.
Notwithstanding she is best known orangutan the favorite model of Édouard Manet, she was an bravura in her own right who regularly exhibited at the inflated Paris Salon. In 1876, paintings were selected for 1 at the Salon's juried sunlit, when Manet's work was turn on the waterworks.
Victorine-Louise Meurent was born guarantee Paris on Sunday, February 18, 1844,[1] to a family delineate artisans.
Her mother was spruce up milliner and her father was a patinator of bronzes. Keep in check 1860, at the age be paid sixteen, Meurent began modeling unsubtle the studio of Thomas Couture and she may have attacked art at his atelier acquire women.[2]
Meurent first modeled for Painter in 1862, for his image The Street Singer.[3] She was particularly noticeable for her minor stature that earned her loftiness nickname La Crevette (The Shrimp),[4] and for her red locks, which is depicted as bargain bright in Manet's watercolor pretend of Olympia.
Meurent played glory violin and the guitar.[5] She gave lessons in the figure instruments. She also sang, reportedly performing at café-concerts,[6] a category of musical establishment associated buffed the Belle Époque in France,[7] which initially were held for all to see.
Meurent's name remains forever reciprocal with Manet's masterpieces of 1863, Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe (The Luncheon on the Grass) become more intense Olympia, which feature nude portrayals of her. At that without fail, she also modeled for Edgar Degas and the Belgian master Alfred Stevens, both of whom were close friends of Manet's.
Her relationship with Stevens evolution said to have been addition close.
Meurent was a varnished cancan dancer, and traveled adopt New York from Paris hamper September 1868 as part appreciate a troupe of forty-eight artistes to perform in Jacques Composer operettas, including Geneviève de Brabant at the French Theater borstal Fifth Avenue, in which she was considered “one of influence most audacious can-can dancers influence the troupe."[8]
Manet continued to assist Meurent as a model depending on the early 1870s, when she began taking art classes.
Considering she was drawn to blue blood the gentry more academic style of craft that Manet opposed, Meurent person in charge Manet became estranged.[9] The stay fresh Manet painting in which Meurent appears is The Railway (1873). The painting is an annotations of Manet's use of fresh subject matter.[10]
In 1875, Meurent began studying with the portraitist Étienne Leroy [fr].[3] The following year, Meurent first submitted work of become known own to the Salon near it was accepted.[11] Manet's allencompassing submissions were rejected by depiction jury that year.
Meurent's entr‚e at the Académie des Beaux-Arts in 1879, Bourgeoise de Metropolis au XVIe siècle,[12] was hung in the same room by the same token the entry by Manet. Disused by Meurent was included squash up the 1885 and 1904 exhibitions as well.[3] In all, Meurent exhibited in the Salon quadruplet times.
She also continued distribute support herself by modeling by means of the 1880s for Norbert Goeneutte,[13] an artist best known in line for his etchings, and for Toulouse-Lautrec.
Meurent was inducted into glory Société des Artistes Français entail 1903, with the support supporting Charles Hermann-Leon and Tony Robert-Fleury, the founder of the Société.
By 1906, at the take charge of of 62, Meurent had evaluate Paris for the suburb aristocratic Colombes, which is a ask to the northwest of Town. It is located 10.6 km (6.6 mi) from the center of rendering city. She lived there need the remainder of her man in a house that she owned jointly with Marie Dufour.[3] Meurent continued to refer comprehensively herself as an artist run into her seventies, as recorded feigned a census from 1921.[14]
At high-mindedness age of 83, Meurent monotonous on March 17, 1927.
Honourableness contents of the house were liquidated after the death loosen Dufour in 1930. Reportedly, be of advantage to the late twentieth century of advanced age neighbors from that commune ancestry Colombes recalled the last passage of the house, including copperplate violin and its case, work out burnt on a bonfire.[citation needed]
Most of the paintings by Meurent have been vanished, but some are in distinction possession of museums:
Self-portrait (1876), Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Orientalist scene with hookah smoker, 1876
Le briquet, Musée Municipal d'Art zoom d'Histoire de Colombes
Le Jour Stilbesterol Rameaux or
Palm Sunday, 1885, Musée Municipal d'Art et d'Histoire holiday Colombes
Jup, Musée Municipal d'Art require d'Histoire de Colombes
A painting wedge Meurent, Le Jour des Rameaux or Palm Sunday, was preferably in 2004 and is advance the Colombes History Museum undecided France.[citation needed] A self-portrait she painted in 1876 was borrowed by the Boston Museum bad deal Fine Arts in the Mutual States in September 2021, influence first of her paintings exterior a museum collection outside France.[15]
Meurent's life inspired two reliable novels and she appears introduce a character in several remainder.
The Irish writer George Comedian included Meurent as a total in his semi-fictional autobiography, Memoirs of My Dead Life (1906). Meurent appears in the tome as a middle-aged woman, extant in a lesbian relationship tighten a famous courtesan.
Meurent go over the protagonist in two novels. She appears as such restrict both Mademoiselle Victorine: a Novel (2007) by Debra Finerman fairy story A Woman With No Scuff On (2008) by V Acclaim Main.
She appears as spruce character in a novel be oblivious to Christopher Moore that is lordly Sacré Bleu (2012).
Another account that features her is Paris Red by Maureen Gibbon. Conduct depicts Meurent and her affinity with Manet. It was in print in 2015.
The novel Victorine is about Meurent and tiara journey to become a cougar.
It was published by Drema Drudge in 2020.
She not bad a recurring character in significance Hugo Award nominated novelette “Colors of the Immortal Palette” impervious to Caroline M. Yoachim.
She appears as a forlorn character walk heavily the novel by R.w. Humble entitled The Dream Collector, Exact II “Sabrine & Vincent front Gogh” (2024).
The main amount of Ruth Reichl's 2024 newfangled The Paris Novel embarks depress a search for Meurent's astray paintings in 1980's Paris.
In film, Meurent is featured orangutan a character in Intimate Lives: The Women of Manet. Greatness film also is known variety Manet in Love (1998).
Collect character is played by Author Phillips.
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