Madeleine Lemaire
Le Sommeil de Manon
A gallant suitor and his beautiful lady
A Young Beauty at a Spinning Wheel
Allegorie De L'Automne La Duchesse De Gramont Presente Un Etalage De Fruits Et De Giber
Barnyard Fowl
Corbeille de lilacs aux hannetons
Coupe de fruits, fleurs et poires
Large Still Life Of Wildflowers In A Basket With A Butterfly
Woman Sitting in a Dagobert Armchair
Young Lady Lying On A Blue Satin Robe
Madeleine Lemaire (née Coll) 1845–1928, was a French painter 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.
George Painter stated in his book Marcel Proust she is one of the models of Proust's Madame Verdurin (In Search of Lost Time).
Links
The Salon of Mme Madeleine Lemaire
References
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.
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