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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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   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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   A Woman With No Clothes On

   Set in 19th century Paris, Main tells the story of 18-year-old Victorine Meurent, the painter Edouard Manet and their shared longing for the ultimate painting.
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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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   Le déjeuner sur l'herbe

   Manet's wife, Suzanne Leenhoff, and his favorite model, Victorine Meurent, both posed for the nude woman, which has Meurent's face, but Leenhoff's plumper body.
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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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   Music in the Tuileries

   | Model | Victorine Meurent | |
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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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    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.

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• Music in the Tuileries,
• Women artists,
• A Family (painting)

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