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Hidden in the shadow of the master, the model-wives of Cézanne, Monet, and Rodin, Ruth Butler

Label
Hidden in the shadow of the master, the model-wives of Cézanne, Monet, and Rodin, Ruth Butler
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 335-343) and index
resource.biographical
collective biography
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Hidden in the shadow of the master
Nature of contents
bibliography
Responsibility statement
Ruth Butler
Sub title
the model-wives of Cézanne, Monet, and Rodin
Table Of Contents
Introduction: Recognizing the model and her work -- Hortense Fiquet. Hortense Fiquet and Paul Cézanne ; Single mother ; Sixty francs for Hortense ; Hortense at thirty: in the salon, in the garden, in bed ; A dark blue wedding dress? ; Fifteen hectares of fallow land ; For or against Hortense? ; After October 1906 -- Camille Doncieux. Camille Doncieux and Claude Monet ; Camille - or - the green dress ; A garden full of dresses ; Without a sou ; Why did he marry her? ; The Second Empire disappears ; The "Impressionist" couple ; Money and La Japonaise ; A patron ; Death in a village by the river ; Epilogue -- Rose Beuret. Rose Beuret and Auguste Rodin ; From Vecqueville to the banks of the Bièvre ; A woman's body ; Montmartre and the Commune ; Ixelles ; The return home ; The commission that changed everything ; A house in Meudon ; The dark side of being the old mistress of a genius ; The war and the wedding ; Afterword: "The humble son of a genius" -- Appendix: The value of money
Target audience
adult
Classification