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   Victorine Meurent

   Victorine Louise Meurent (1844-1927) was a French painter and a famous model for painters. Although she is now best known as the favorite model of Édouard Manet, she also was an artist in her own right, who exhibited repeatedly at the prestigious Paris Salon.
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   Le déjeuner sur l'herbe

   The nude, Manet's model Victorine Meurent, whose body is starkly lit, stares directly at the viewer.
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   Olympia (painting)

   The model, Victorine Meurent, went on to become an accomplished painter in her own right.
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   The Railway

   Using his favorite model in his last painting of her, a fellow painter, Victorine Meurent, also the model for Olympia and the Luncheon on the Grass, sits before an iron fence holding a sleeping puppy and an open book in her lap.
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   Women artists

   Artists from this period include Constance Mayer, Marie Ellenrieder, Rosa Bonheur, Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt, Camille Claudel, Kate Greenaway, Suzanne Valadon, Victorine Meurent, Anna Boch, Enid Yandell and Lucy Bacon.
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   Édouard Manet

   Using his favorite model in his last painting of her, a fellow painter, Victorine Meurent, also the model for Olympia and the Luncheon on the Grass, sits before an iron fence holding a sleeping puppy and an open book in her lap.
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   1862 in art

   Mlle. Victorine Meurent in the Costume of an Espada (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
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   Louis le Brocquy

   Conceived in the wake of World War II, the artist explains: 'I have always been fascinated by the horizontal monumentality of traditional Odalisque painting, the reclining woman depicted voluptuously by one Master after another throughout the history of European art - Titian's Venus of Urbino, Velázquez' Rokeby Venus turning her back on the Spanish Court, Goya's Maja clothed and unclothed, Ingres' Reclining Odalisque in her seraglio and finally the great Olympia of Edouard Manet celebrating his favourite model, Victorine Meurent.
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   A Family (painting)

   Louis le Brocquy explains: 'I have always been fascinated by the horizontal monumentality of traditional Odalisque painting, the reclining woman depicted voluptuously by one Master after another throughout the history of European art - Titians' Venus of Urbino, Velasquez' Rokeby Venus turning her back on the Spanish Court, Goya's Maja clothed and unclothed, Ingres' Reclining Odalisque in her seraglio and finally the great Olympia of Edouard Manet celebrating his favourite model, Victorine Meurent.

Explore the following pages on Powerset:

• Victorine Meurent,
• Le déjeuner sur l'herbe,
• Olympia (painting),
• The Railway,
• Women artists,
• Édouard Manet,
• 1862 in art,
• Louis le Brocquy,
• A Family (painting)