| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 354 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| 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 |
| Summary |
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Paul Cézanne, Claude Monet, and Auguste Rodin. The names of these brilliant nineteenth-century artists are known throughout the world. But what is remembered of their wives? What were these unknown women like? What |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-343) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Cézanne, Paul, 1839-1906 -- Relations with women
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Monet, Claude, 1840-1926 -- Relations with women
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Rodin, Auguste, 1840-1917 -- Relations with women
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Cézanne, Paul, 1839-1906 fast |
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Monet, Claude, 1840-1926 fast |
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Rodin, Auguste, 1840-1917 fast |
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Monet, Claude. swd |
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Monet, Camille. swd |
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Cézanne, Paul. swd |
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Cézanne, Hortense. swd |
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Rodin, Auguste. swd |
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Beuret, Rose. swd |
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Artists' spouses -- France -- Biography
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Artists' models -- France -- Biography
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Artists -- France -- History -- 19th century
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ART -- History -- General.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Artists, Architects, Photographers.
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Artists
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Artists' models
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Artists' spouses
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Relations with women
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Ehefrau
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France
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collective biographies.
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Biographies
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History
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2008004984 |
| ISBN |
9780300149531 |
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0300149530 |
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1282089587 |
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9781282089587 |
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9786612352096 |
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6612352094 |
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9786612089589 |
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661208958X |
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