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Marie Colombier is part of the provenance/ownership history of Sir William Burrell's collection for the work entitled 'Marie Colombier' by Edouard Manet. Epitomising the life of the demi-monde in late s' Paris, the actress and writer, achieved world-wide notoriety due to her acrimonious and bizarre relationship with the renowned French actress, Sarah Bernhardt.
Her father, Pablo Martinez, was an army officer who had found refuge in France. However, by the time Marie was seven years old she and her mother were living in Paris. Precocious from an early age, at 15 she went to Belgium to enrol for acting lessons at the Th&#;&#;tre de la Monnaie in Brussels.
Returning to Paris in , she entered the prestigious Conservatoire National Sup&#;rieur d'Art Dramatique, obtaining in , a first and second place prize for tragedy and comedy, respectively. Making her debut in , she worked diligently, mastering her craft and in was 'discovered' by the illustrious G
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Édouard Manet
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Édouard Manet ( January 23, – April 30, ) was a French painter. One of the first nineteenth century artists to approach modern-life subjects, he was a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism. His early masterworks The Luncheon on the Grass and Olympia engendered great controversy, and served as rallying points for the ung painters who would create Impressionism—today these are considered watershed paintings that mark the genesis of modern art.
Biography
Early life
Édouard Manet was born in Paris in to an affluent and well connected family. His mother, Eugénie-Desirée Fournier, was the goddaughter of the Swedish crown prince, Charles Bernadotte, from whom the current Swedish monarchs are descended. His father, Auguste Manet, was a French judge who expected Édouard to pursue a career in lag. His uncle, Charles Fournier, enc
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Méry Laurent
French salonnière and demimonde
Méry Laurent | |
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| Born | Anne Rose Suzanne Louviot 29 April Nancy, France |
| Died | November 26, () (aged&#;51) Paris, France |
| Nationality | French |
| Known&#;for | Demimonde, artist's model, salonnière |
Méry Laurent, born Anne Rose Suzanne Louviot (29 April - 26 November ), was a demi-mondaine (courtesan) and the muse of several Parisian artists. She used to run her own “salon” where she hosted many French (and even American) writers and painters of her time: Stéphane Mallarmé, Émile Zola, Marcel Proust, François Coppée, Henri Gervex, James Whistler, and Édouard Manet.[1]
Biography
[edit]Anne Rose Suzanne Louviot was born in Nancy in She was the daughter of a woman who worked as a laundress in Marshal Francois Certain De Canrobert's household, and of an unknown father. Her laundress mother sold her year-old daughter's virginity to Canrobert, so that her daughter would become Canorbe