Muses & Models

Jiminez, Jill Berk (ed)  Dictionary of Artists’ Models   London: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 2001

Prose, Francine  The Lives of the Muses: Nine Women & the Artists They Inspired. Harper Perennial 2003

Claude Monet & Camille Doncieux ― Gedo, Mary Mathews   Monet & His Muse: Camille Monet in the Artist’s Life   Chicago: Univ. of Chicago, 2010

Monet, Camille & Alice

Victorine Meurent (1844-1927) Manet’s model in Déjeuner sur l’herbe (The Luncheon on the Grass); Olympia; Gare Saint-Lazare (The Railway); (and even the boy in The Fifer). Also modeled for Degas & the Belgian painter Alfred Stevens

Renoir & His Models. Aline Charigot     http://www.artistsandart.org/2010/05/renoir-and-his-models-aline-charigot.html

Suzanne Valadon (1865–1938) Marie-Clémentine Valadon, Bessines-sur-Gartempe, Haute-Vienne, France.  In 1894, became the first woman painter admitted to the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts.  “A free spirit, she would wear a corsage of carrots, kept a goat at her studio to “eat up her bad drawings”, & fed caviar to her “good Catholic” cats on Fridays.”  became a circus acrobat at the age of 15;  She modeled for Edgar Degas, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, (Young Woman at a Table), Pierre-Auguste Renoir & Pierre Puvis de Chavannes; she also had affairs with all of them. In 1889 Toulouse-Lautrec would paint: “The Hangover.”

Valadon ― Miles, Margaret R.   “Nakedness, Gender, & Religious Meaning,”  in Carnal Knowing: Female Nakedness & Religious Meaning in the Christian West   NY: Vintage, 1989 pp.169-85

Renoir (1841-1919) ‘las grandes banhistas’– (1884-1887)  Phila Museum of Art (Aline Charigot, Senhora Renoir, Suzanne Valadon)

http://bjws.blogspot.com/2010/07/henri-de-toulouse-lautrec-1864-1901_29.html

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901) one of his favorite models, in addition to Suzanne Valadon, was another laundress named Carmen Gaudin (1866?–1920).(La blanchisseuse) La Rousse (the redhead)

http://www.davidrumsey.com/amica/amico935317-19344.html

Klimt & His Women – document.   Alma Maria Mahler-Werfel,  (nee Schindler) (1879-1964) Viennese-born socialite.  wife, successively, of composer Gustav Mahler, architect Walter Gropius, & novelist Franz Werfel, as well as the consort of several other prominent men, e.g., affair with the artist Oskar Kokoschka,  Bride of the Wind

In 1911, Egon Schiele (1890-1918) met the seventeen-year-old Valerie (Wally) Neuzil, who lived with him in Vienna & served as model, Woman in Black Stockings (1913). Very little is known of her, except that she had previously modelled for Gustav Klimt & might have been one of his mistresses.

Julia Prinsep Stephen (nee Jackson) (1846–95), mother of Virginia Woolf, model for Pre-Raphaelite painters such as Edward Burne-Jones

Lytton Strachey & Dora Carrington

Elizabeth Siddal ― John Everett Millais, Ophelia;  Rossetti,  Beata Beatrix

Annie Miller — Holman Hunt, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, et.al

Jane Burden (later Jane Morris, 1839–1914)

Gray, Euphemia (“Effie”) Chalmers (1828-97) wife of Ruskin, but later left her husband to marry his protege, the Pre-Raphaelite painter John Everett Millais

Edward Burne-Jones & Maria Zambaco  she appears in some of his most inspired pictures—as the sorceress in the Wine of Circe, the witch in The Beguiling of Merlin, & the demonic sprite in Phyllis & Demophoön.

Corder, Rosa Frances (1853-93) model & lover of Charles Augustus Howell unscrupulous agent of both Ruskin (eventually Edward Burne-Jones persuaded Ruskin to sever his connection with Howell) & Rossetti (persuaded Rossetti to dig up the poems he buried with his wife Elizabeth Siddal). alleged to have persuaded Corder to create fake Rossetti drawings

John Singer Sargent (1856–1925)  “Madame X (Madame Pierre Gautreau)” 1883–84

Butler, Ruth   Hidden in the Shadow of the Master: The Model­, Wives of Cézanne, Monet, & Rodin.   New Haven: Yale, 2008  Hortense Fiquet & Paul Cézanne; Camille Doncieux & Claude Monet; Rose Beuret & Auguste Rodin

Rousseau’s portrait of  Guillaume  Apollinaire with his mistress Marie Laurencin, The Muse Inspiring the Poet (1909)

Joanna “Jo” Hiffernan (Heffernan) – Whistler’s mistress & model & Courbet’s favorite model

Evelyn Nesbit     Uruburu, Paula “Evelyn Nesbit: ‘American Eve,’ Excerpt”; Nesbit, White & Madison Square Garden; Murder of the Century PBS American Experience; http://www.americaneve.com/homepage.html

Barney, Natalie Clifford (1876-1972) & Brooks, Romaine 1874-1970

Diego Rivera & Frida Kahlo

George Sand, novelist, muse to Chopin and Alfred de Musset

Anais Nin, author, muse to Henry Miller

Amanda Lear, singer, muse to Salvador Dali;  Salvador & Gala Dali

Man Ray & Lee Miller

Catherine Deneuve, actress, muse to Bunuel, André Téchiné and Yves Saint Laurent

Camille Claudel (1864–1943)sculptor, muse, model, confidante & lover of Rodin; she never lived with Rodin, who was reluctant to end his 20-year relationship with Rose Beuret.

Alice B. Toklas, author, muse to Gertrude Stein

Leonora Carrington, artist, muse to Max Ernst

Augustus John & model, mistress, wife, Dorelia McNeill

Gwen John model & mistress to Auguste Rodin (33 years her senior)

Pierre Bonnard – Renée Monchaty (model, lover, suicide), Marthe de Méligny (model, wife, muse)

“Misia” Marie Sophie Olga Zénaïde Godebska (1872-1950) muse & model to Toulouse-Lautrec, Bonnard, Vuillard, Renoir, Diaghilev, Cocteau, & Vallaton

Matisse & Lydia Delectorskaya; model Loulou Brouty; model Caroline Joblau, with whom he had a daughter, Marguerite, born in 1894
Between Dec. 1916 & the close of 1917, Matisse painted at least 25 pictures of an Italian model named Laurette. She also posed with her sister & a woman named Aïcha for some 15 additional works by the artist.  Laurette in a Green Robe (Black Background), 1916 [Met Museum]

Jeanne Hebuterne, model and painter, muse to  Amadeo Modigliani

Loulou de la Falaise, designer, muse to Yves Saint Laurent

Francisco Goya and his mistress Leocadia Weiss,La Leocadia (1819 to 1823)

Lise Trehot & Auguste Renoir

Seurat’s model & common law wife, Madeleine Knobloch

Picasso & Dora Maar; Fernande Olivier, Olga Koklova, Marie Thérèse Walter, Françoise Gilot,  Jacqueline Roque, et.al

Jessie Macauley Olssen  The Annunciation (1898) wife & model of Henry Ossawa Tanner

Raphael & Margherita Luti  La Fornarina & “Woman with a Veil (La Donna Velata)”  1516

Botticelli & Simonetta Vespucci

Godley, Kathleen (Kitty) Epstein Freud (1926-2011) ― Artist & muse, daughter of Jacob Epstein & first wife/model of Lucian Freud. Her second marriage was to musician & Cambridge economist Wynne Godley (Epstein’s model for the head of the figure of Saint Michael spearing the devil in the sculpture at Coventry Cathedral).