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[[Image:OlympePélissierStudy.jpg|thumb|230px|Study of Olympe Pélissier by Vernet for his ''Judith and Holofernes'']] |
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[[Image:JudHolofVernet.JPG|250px|thumb|[[Horace Vernet]]'s ''[[Judith and Holofernes]]'', for which Pélissier modelled]] |
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'''Olympe Pélissier''' (1799<ref>http://autourduperetanguy.blogspirit.com/archive/2007/03/03/olympe-pelissier.html</ref>-1878) was a [[French people|French]] [[Model (art)|artists' model]] and the second wife of the [[Italians|Italian]] [[composer]] [[Gioachino Rossini]]. She sat for [[Horace Vernet|Vernet]] for his painting of ''[[Judith and Holofernes]]''. |
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Under the [[Bourbon Restoration]], Pélissier had been a notable figure in [[Paris]]ian society, admired by the Comte de Girardin, holding [[salon (gathering)|salon]]s attended by Baron Schikler, and in 1830 having a liaison with [[Honoré de Balzac]].<ref>[http://www.delalitterature.com/auteurs/biographie_honore-balzac_4_auteurs.php De La Littérature : Biographie de Honoré de Balzac<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><ref>[http://mediene.over-blog.com/article-11668895.html Balzac : Monde et demi monde dans La Comédie humaine - Le blog de Med Médiène<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> 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, although they only married after Isabella's death in 1845, on August 16, 1846. She lived with him at his new house in the [[Passy]] suburb, and continued to do so until her own death. |
Under the [[Bourbon Restoration]], Pélissier had been a notable figure in [[Paris]]ian society, admired by the Comte de Girardin, holding [[salon (gathering)|salon]]s attended by Baron Schikler, and in 1830 having a liaison with [[Honoré de Balzac]].<ref>[http://www.delalitterature.com/auteurs/biographie_honore-balzac_4_auteurs.php De La Littérature : Biographie de Honoré de Balzac<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><ref>[http://mediene.over-blog.com/article-11668895.html Balzac : Monde et demi monde dans La Comédie humaine - Le blog de Med Médiène<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> 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, although they only married after Isabella's death in 1845, on August 16, 1846. She lived with him at his new house in the [[Passy]] suburb, and continued to do so until her own death. |
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Revision as of 13:58, 18 October 2009
Olympe Pélissier (1799[1]-1878) was a French artists' model and the second wife of the Italian composer Gioachino Rossini. She sat for Vernet for his painting of Judith and Holofernes.
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 liaison with Honoré de Balzac.[2][3] 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, although they only married after Isabella's death in 1845, on August 16, 1846. 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 television film Eugène Sue,[4] played by Claudine Coster.
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