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- She defied the traditional, passive roles women were expected to play in art and society. As a model, she helped create images that challenged societal norms, and as an artist, she fought for recognition in a field dominated by men. Her story is emblematic of the countless women throughout history who have been erased or overlooked.
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Sep 13, 2016 · Victorine-Louise Meurent, despite being the model for a coterie of famous Parisian male painters, was an artist in her own right – one who exhibited repeatedly at the prestigious Paris Salon– a fact lost in her elusive history.
- Hazel Smith
Mar 31, 2020 · This recovered painting is particularly important because Victorine’s self-portrait would have been a significant act of defiance and self-delineation in a rapidly changing art world. Its recovery will allow art scholars to compare it with the more than thirty paintings of her by male artists, and to see her as she saw herself.
Victorine-Louise Meurent (also Meurant; February 18, 1844 – March 17, 1927) was a French painter and a model for painters. Although she is best known as the favorite model of Édouard Manet, she was an artist in her own right who regularly exhibited at the prestigious Paris Salon.
Apr 25, 2015 · Maureen Gibbon's new novel, Paris Red, delves into the life of Victorine Meurent, Manet's favorite model and the central figure in some of his most famous paintings.
Jun 25, 2021 · Victorine Meurent (1844-1908) interests art historians primarily because Edouard Manet featured her in two of his masterpieces now in the Louvre: Le Dejeuner sur l'Herbe, reinterpreted here as a sacred painting, and Olympia, earlier viewed by Theodore Reff as a profane one.
- Seibert, Margaret Armbrust
- 1986
- Thesis
Victorine Meurent’s life offers a window into the struggles faced by women in the art world, both then and now. While she may have been forgotten by history for nearly a century, her recent rediscovery has sparked important discussions about the role of women in art.
During the 1860s Edouard Manet was inspired by the sight of a woman with a guitar emerging from a disreputable café. The female musician refused to pose for the picture, so Manet employed a woman...
