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nickelcobalt: John Lennon & Andy Warhol at a party,...

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John Lennon & Andy Warhol at a party, photographed by Deborah Colton, 1971

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dendroica: Victorine Louise Meurent (February 18, 1844 –...

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 22:45:04 -0400

dendroica:

Victorine Louise Meurent (February 18, 1844 – March 17, 1927) was a French painter and a famous model for painters. Although she is now best known as the favourite model of Édouard Manet, she also was an artist in her own right, who exhibited repeatedly at the prestigious Paris Salon….

Her name remains forever associated with Manet’s masterpieces, The Luncheon on the Grass and Olympia, which include nude portrayals of her. During this time period she also modeled for Edgar Degas and the Belgian painter Alfred Stevens, both close friends of Manet. Her relationship with Stevens is said to have been particularly close.

Manet continued to use Victorine Meurent as a model until the early 1870s, when she began taking art classes and they became estranged, as Victorine was drawn to the more academic style of painting against which Manet’s work was in opposition. The last painting by Manet in which Meurent appears is Gare Saint-Lazare, which is often referred to as The Railway, painted in 1873. The painting is considered the best example of Manet’s first use of the modern approach to subject matter.

Three years later, Victorine Meurent first presented work of her own at the 1876 Salon and her work was accepted—ironically, Manet’s own submissions were rejected by the jury that year. Bourgeoise de Nuremberg au XVIe siècle, Meurent’s entry at the Académie des Beaux-Arts in 1879, was hung in the same room as the entry by Manet. Work by Meurent also was included in the 1885 and 1904 exhibitions. In all, Victorine Meurent exhibited in the Salon six times. Meurent also continued to support herself by modelling through the 1880s for Norbert Goeneutte, an artist best known for his etchings today, and Toulouse-Lautrec, who was taken to introducing her as “Olympia”.

Meurent was inducted into the Société des Artistes Français in 1903, with the support of Charles Hermann-Leon and Tony Robert-Fleury, the Société’s founder. By 1906, Meurent had left Paris for the suburb of Colombes, where she lived with a woman named Marie Dufour for the remainder of her life. The two appear to have shared ownership of their house. In her eighties, she continued to refer to herself as an artist, as recorded in a census from that time. Meurent died on March 17, 1927. After the death of Dufour, in 1930, the contents of the house were liquidated; in the late 20th century, elderly neighbours recalled the last contents of the house, including a violin and its case, being burnt on a bonfire.

A painting by Meurent, Le Jour des Rameaux or Palm Sunday was recovered in 2004 and now hangs in the Colombes History Museum.

(via Victorine Meurent - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

See VR Main’s article in The Guardian for more on her life.

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Rigatoni for Dinner tonight! Yum!

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Rigatoni for Dinner tonight! Yum!

Paris in a snap

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Paris in a snap

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Pim mukhang masarap lahat ng food! :-)

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wow thank you!!:)

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Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald photographed for Love...

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Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald photographed for Love Me Tonight (1932).

Nothing like watching love me tonight with a cup of chocolate orange tea :)

discussing our Paris trip with some cafe mint and americano (at...

Sat, 06 Apr 2013 16:46:16 -0400

discussing our Paris trip with some cafe mint and americano (at Orange Alert)

Even Lucky was smiling! sooo cute!

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Even Lucky was smiling! sooo cute!

broiled monkfish in lemon butter & white wine with lobsters...

Wed, 03 Apr 2013 00:04:09 -0400

broiled monkfish in lemon butter & white wine with lobsters paired with some orange and beet salad. I had such great time making these!