Victorine Meurent
Victorine Louise Meurent (also Louise Meuran, Meurend or Meurand) (born February 18, 1844 in Paris , † March 17, 1927 in Colombes ) was a French painter and for several years the preferred model of Édouard Manet .
Life
Victorine Meurent was born in Paris as the daughter of the engraver Jean-Louis-Etienne Meurent and his wife Louise-Thérèse. One of Victorine's uncle was a sculptor. Otherwise, little is known about Victorine Meurent's youth and education, except that she learned to play the guitar. Ambroise Vollard described her as a capricious being who spoke the language of a Parisian street girl. From December 1861 to January 1863 she was a model in Thomas Couture's studio . She met Manet in 1862 when she was just 18 years old. Until 1875 she was his model for numerous pictures, including the major works The Street Singer , The Breakfast in the Green , Olympia and The Railway .
After a stay in America, she took drawing lessons herself and exhibited her self-portrait (Musée municipal d'Art et d'Histoire de Colombes) in the Paris Salon of 1876. Other works by her known by name are Nuremberg citizen in the sixteenth century (Salon from 1879) and Palm Sunday (Salon from 1885). The last painter she was modeled on was Norbert Goeneutte (1854–1894) in 1890 .
She later fell into alcoholism and entered into a lesbian relationship with model Marie Pellegrin, as noted by George Moore in Memoirs of My Dead Life . At first the La Glu (German: Die Klebe ) appeared repeatedly scrounging in bars and cafés, before later getting a monkey and dressed as la vieille au singe (German: the old woman with the monkey) in rags and playing the guitar begging in the street.
Before she met Marie Dufour in 1898, she cared for her mother in Asnières-sur-Seine . She moved with Marie Dufour to Colombes, where she died of old age. Most of her paintings and drawings are now considered lost.
Victorine Meurent in Manet's works
Street singer
Breakfast in the countryside
Olympia
The Lady with the Parrot (Young Woman, 1866)
The railroad
Portrait of Mlle Victorine in the costume of a bullfighter
literature
- Exhibition catalog Paris 1983: Manet . German edition Berlin 1984 ISBN 3-88725-092-3 .
- Eunice Lipton: Alias Olympia . New York 1992 ISBN 0-452-01135-3 .
- Otto Friedrich : Edouard Manet and the Paris of his time . New York and Cologne 1992/1994 ISBN 3-462-02366-7 .
- VR Main: A woman with no clothes on . Delancey, London 2008, ISBN 0-9539119-7-7 .
- George Moore: Memoirs of my dead life . London 1906, German by Max Meyerfeld: From dead days Berlin 1907.
Web links
- GLBTQ Encyclopedia: Victorine Meurent (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Meurent, Victorine |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Meurent, Victorine Louise (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French painter and model by Édouard Manet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 18, 1844 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 17, 1927 |
| Place of death | Colombes |