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[[Image:OlympePélissierStudy.jpg|thumb|left|230px|Study of Olympe Pélissier by Vernet for his ''Judith and Holofernes'']] |
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[[Image:JudHolofVernet.JPG|thumb|[[Horace Vernet]]'s ''[[Judith and Holofernes]]'', for which Pélissier modelled]] |
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'''Olympe Pélissier''' (?-1878) was an artist's model and the second wife of the composer [[Gioachino Rossini]]. The couple married on on August 16, 1846. |
'''Olympe Pélissier''' (?-1878) was an artist's model and the second wife of the composer [[Gioachino Rossini]]. The couple married on on August 16, 1846. |
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Olympe Pélissier (?-1878) was an artist's model and the second wife of the composer Gioachino Rossini. The couple married on on August 16, 1846.
Under the Bourbon Restoration, Pélissier had been a notable figure in Parisian society, admired by the Comte de Girardin, holding salons attended by Baron Schikler, and in 1830 having a liason with Honore Balzac[1][2]. She and Rossini first met in 1840, in the aftermath of his separation from his first wife Isabella Colbran, and Olympe began to cook for him and manage his business affairs, though they only married after Isabella's death. She lived with him at his new house in the Passy suburb, and continued to do so until her own death.
In fiction, she appears in the 1974 French tv film Eugène Sue[1], played by Claudine Coster.