Madeleine Lemaire
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Madeleine Lemaire | |
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 Detail of the portrait of Madeleine Lemaire by Félix Nadar (1891) | |
| Born | Madeleine Jeanne Coll 1845 Les Arcs, Var, France |
| Died | April 8, 1928 (aged 82–83) Paris, France |
| Known for | Painting |
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Madeleine Lemaire, née Coll (1845 – 8 April 1928), was a French painter who specialized in elegant genre works and flowers.[1] Robert de Montesquiou said she was The Empress of the Roses. She introduced Marcel Proust and Reynaldo Hahn to the Parisian salons of the aristocracy.[2] She herself held a salon where she received high society in her hôtel particulier on the Rue de Monceau.
Lemaire exhibited her work at the Palace of Fine Arts and The Woman's Building at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois.[3]
George Painter stated in his book Marcel Proust[full citation needed] that she is one of the models of Proust's Madame Verdurin (In Search of Lost Time). In the preface to Les Plaisirs et les Jours, a book which she illustrated, Proust reports an epigram by Alexander Dumas fils on Lemaire: "She's the one who has created the most roses, after God." [c’est elle qui a créé le plus de roses après Dieu.][4]
Woman's Building, 1893
Un Moment Musical
Roses
Portrait de Colette Dumas
The Month of Mary, 1886
Le Gouter au Salon du Peintre
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References
[edit]- ↑ Ellison, David (2010). A Reader's Guide to Proust's 'In Search of Lost Time'. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press. p. 12. ISBN 978-0-521-72006-9.
- ↑ Bales, Richard (2001). The Cambridge companion to Proust. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press. p. 10. ISBN 978-0-521-66961-0.
- ↑ Nichols, K. L. "Women's Art at the World's Columbian Fair & Exposition, Chicago 1893". Retrieved 26 July 2018.
- ↑ Proust, Marcel (1871-1922). Auteur du texte (1896). "Les plaisirs et les jours / Marcel Proust ; illustrations de Madeleine Lemaire ; préface d'Anatole France ; et quatre pièces pour piano de Reynaldo Hahn". Gallica. Archived from the original on 2025-04-21. Retrieved 2026-06-26.
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External links
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- The Salon of Mme Madeleine Lemaire [dead link]
- Madeleine Jeanne Lemaire – Artworks on The Athenaeum [dead link]
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