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Episode 7 - Victorine Meurent
Victorine Meurent was born in Paris on February 18. 1844 and from an early age she was drawn to art. In 1862 Edouard Manet walked into Thomas Couture’s studio and met a young girl. Couture would teach Manet & Henri Fantin-Latour and feature many young models. On this one day, Victorine-Louis Meurent was in Couture’s studio when Manet arrived.
She was just 16, with red hair and nicknamed La Crevette and would go on to become the muse for some of the biggest artists at that time. He would paint her for the first time in The Street Singer, with her piercing eyes that we would come to know so well in two of his most famous and controversial paintings. Victorine would sit for him 8 or 9 times, we will come back to that in a minute.
Many may know her name because of one fantastic painting, Olympia. The painting that rocked the Salon of 1863 with its suggestive subject of the courtesan laying naked on her bed while her servant brings her flowers from one of her admirers. Given the name Olympia, a name associated with prostitutes and the many small elements that hint at her wealth, many of which transferred over to the model herself. Victorine was nothing close to the woman in the painting, Born to a well est
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Cet ouvrage fait suite au colloque international pluridisciplinaire Faire œuvre. La formation et la professionnalisation des artistes femmes aux XIXe et XXe siècles organisé les 19 et 20 septembre 2019 au Centre Pompidou et au musée d’Orsay, à Paris, en partenariat avec l’association AWARE.
Comité scientifique
Hanna Alkema,
Sabine Cazenave,
Ariane Coulondre,
Alexia Creusen,
Sophie Eloy,
Nathalie Ernoult,
Thomas Galifot,
Leïla Jarbouai,
Camille Morineau,
Nicole Myers,
Sylvie Patry,
Scarlett Reliquet,
Anne Rivière,
Séverine Sofio,
Matylda Taszycka,
Fanny Verdier,
Julie Verlaine
et Charlotte Foucher Zarmanian
Direction d’ouvrage
Sibylle Vabre
avec Matylda Taszycka (AWARE)
Coordination éditoriale
Sibylle Vabre
Relecture
Sandra Pizzo
et Bronwyn Mahoney
Conception graphique et mise en page
Lisa Sturacci
avec Pia Philippe
Traduction
Lucy Pons
Iconographie
Consuelo Crulci-Perrois
avec le soutien de Clarisse Deubel (Centre Pompidou)
Édition
AWARE: Archives of Women Artists, Research and Exhibitions
Soutiens
Cet ouvrage a bénéficié du soutien du Fonds de dotation Elysées Monceau.
Cet ouvrage a bénéficié d’une aide de l’ANR au titre du programme Investissement d’avenir (ANR-17-EURE-0008).
Cet ouvrage a bénéficié
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Victorine Meurent: The Direct Story reproduce Manet’s Muse
Olympia, Musée d’Orsay 1863
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Victorine Meurent 1844 – 1927, BNF Gallica
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