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Suzanne Manet (, ; ; 30 October 1829 – 8 March 1906) was a Dutch-born
An excellent pianist, Leenhoff was initially hired in 1851 by Manet's father, Auguste, as a piano teacher for Édouard and his brothers. Auguste was a domineering figure in Édouard's life, insisting that his son study law and avoid the arts. In their early twenties, Suzanne and Édouard developed a personal relationship and were romantically involved for some ten years. After Édouard left his parents' home, he and Suzanne lived together, although they kept their relationship discreet and secret, especially from Édouard's father. (Leenhoff may also have been Auguste's mistress.) Leenhoff gave birth out of wedlock to a son, Léon-Edouard Koëlla, on 29 January 1852. The birth certificate gave Leenhoff as the mother but "Koëlla" as the father, an individual never identified and likely invented. Léon was baptised in 1855, and became known as Suzanne's young brother. Suzanne and Édouard were finally married in October 1863, a year after the death of Édouard's father.Manet 1832-1883, Françoise Cachin, p286. Édouard never publicly confirmed Léon as his son. Some report that the father could have been Manet's own father, Auguste.
Léon posed often for Édouard Manet. Most famously, he is the subject of the ''
Édouard Manet and
File:Édouard MANET - La Nymphe surprise - Google Art Project.jpg,
Musée d'Orsay, Manet Dossier: chronology
Norton Simon Museum
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pianist
A pianist ( , ) is a musician who plays the piano. A pianist's repertoire may include music from a diverse variety of styles, such as traditional classical music, jazz piano, jazz, blues piano, blues, and popular music, including rock music, ...
and the wife of the painter Édouard Manet
Édouard Manet (, ; ; 23 January 1832 – 30 April 1883) was a French Modernism, modernist painter. He was one of the first 19th-century artists to paint modern life, as well as a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism (art movement), R ...
, for whom she frequently modeled.
Life
An excellent pianist, Leenhoff was initially hired in 1851 by Manet's father, Auguste, as a piano teacher for Édouard and his brothers. Auguste was a domineering figure in Édouard's life, insisting that his son study law and avoid the arts. In their early twenties, Suzanne and Édouard developed a personal relationship and were romantically involved for some ten years. After Édouard left his parents' home, he and Suzanne lived together, although they kept their relationship discreet and secret, especially from Édouard's father. (Leenhoff may also have been Auguste's mistress.) Leenhoff gave birth out of wedlock to a son, Léon-Edouard Koëlla, on 29 January 1852. The birth certificate gave Leenhoff as the mother but "Koëlla" as the father, an individual never identified and likely invented. Léon was baptised in 1855, and became known as Suzanne's young brother. Suzanne and Édouard were finally married in October 1863, a year after the death of Édouard's father.Manet 1832-1883, Françoise Cachin, p286. Édouard never publicly confirmed Léon as his son. Some report that the father could have been Manet's own father, Auguste.
Léon posed often for Édouard Manet. Most famously, he is the subject of the ''Boy Carrying a Sword
''Boy Carrying a Sword'' is an 1861 oil painting by the French artist Édouard Manet and is now displayed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The work depicts a small boy costumed as a page of the Spanish court of the seventeenth cent ...
'' of 1861 (Metropolitan Museum of Art
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, New York) and Boy Blowing Bubbles (Calouste Gulbenkian Museum
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, Lisbon). He also appears as the boy carrying a tray in the background of ''The Balcony
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''.
Portrait by Degas
Édouard Manet and Edgar Degas
Edgar Degas (, ; born Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas, ; 19 July 183427 September 1917) was a French Impressionist artist famous for his pastel drawings and oil paintings.
Degas also produced bronze sculptures, prints, and drawings. Degas is e ...
met by chance at the Louvre
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in 1862, and after an intense conversation and Manet's demonstration on the art of etching, they became lifelong friends. Sometime in 1868 Degas painted a portrait of Manet and his wife. Manet is reclining on a couch and Suzanne appears to be seated at a piano. The mystery that surrounds the portrait by Degas is the fact that the painting has been slashed from top to bottom and right through the likeness of Suzanne. The supposition is that Manet, for an unknown reason, cut the painting. Manet might have slashed the painting because he did not like the way Suzanne was painted, or because he was feuding at the time with Degas, or he might have been angry with his wife. When Degas saw what had been done to his painting he demanded its return, and he took it back. Degas intended to re-paint the likeness of Suzanne at the piano and he reiterated his intention to Ambroise Vollard
Ambroise Vollard (; 3 July 1866 – 21 July 1939) was a French art dealer who is regarded as one of the most important dealers in French contemporary art at the beginning of the twentieth century. He is credited with
being a major supporter an ...
in conversation with him around the turn of the century. Degas never got around to fixing the painting and it remains in its slashed state in the Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art
The is located in Tobata-ku, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. Designed by Arata Isozaki, it sits on a hill straddling the three wards of Kokura Kita, Tobata, and Yahata Higashi. The museum houses more than 6,000 pieces of art, as well as o ...
in Japan.Manet 1832-1883, Paul-André Lemoisne
Paul-André Lemoisne (7 February 1875, Paris - 19 June 1964, Neuilly-sur-Seine) was a French art historian, librarian, and member of the Institut de France.Arnauld Doria, funeral speech, In: ''Nouvelles de l'estampe'', 1964-10, pg.292
Biography
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, pp. 140-142.
Suzanne as a model
Édouard Manet
Édouard Manet (, ; ; 23 January 1832 – 30 April 1883) was a French Modernism, modernist painter. He was one of the first 19th-century artists to paint modern life, as well as a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism (art movement), R ...
, '' The Startled Nymph'', 1859-1861
File:Edouard Manet 005.jpg, Édouard Manet
Édouard Manet (, ; ; 23 January 1832 – 30 April 1883) was a French Modernism, modernist painter. He was one of the first 19th-century artists to paint modern life, as well as a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism (art movement), R ...
, ''The Reading'', 1868
File:Edouard_Manet_Full-face_Portrait_of_Manets_Wife.jpg, Édouard Manet
Édouard Manet (, ; ; 23 January 1832 – 30 April 1883) was a French Modernism, modernist painter. He was one of the first 19th-century artists to paint modern life, as well as a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism (art movement), R ...
, ''Madame Manet'', Norton Simon Museum
The Norton Simon Museum is an art museum located in Pasadena, California. It was previously known as the Pasadena Art Institute and the Pasadena Art Museum and displays numerous sculptures on its grounds.
Overview
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, 1874-1876
File:Manet - Mme Manet im Gewaechshaus.JPG, Édouard Manet
Édouard Manet (, ; ; 23 January 1832 – 30 April 1883) was a French Modernism, modernist painter. He was one of the first 19th-century artists to paint modern life, as well as a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism (art movement), R ...
, ''Mme. Manet in The Greenhouse'', 1879
File:Portrait of Madame Edouard Manet on a blue sofa (1874) - Edouard Manet (Musée d'Orsay, Paris).jpg, Édouard Manet
Édouard Manet (, ; ; 23 January 1832 – 30 April 1883) was a French Modernism, modernist painter. He was one of the first 19th-century artists to paint modern life, as well as a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism (art movement), R ...
, ''Mme. Manet, On A Blue Sofa'', c. 1880
File:Édouard Manet - Mme Édouard Manet dans le Jardin de Bellevue.jpg, Édouard Manet
Édouard Manet (, ; ; 23 January 1832 – 30 April 1883) was a French Modernism, modernist painter. He was one of the first 19th-century artists to paint modern life, as well as a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism (art movement), R ...
, ''Mme Manet in the garden of Bellevue,'' 1880, Metropolitan Museum of Art
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References
Further reading
* ''Suzanne en Edouard Manet: De liefde van een Hollandse pianiste en een Parijse schilder'' by :nl: Thera Coppens, 2014. , . *Françoise Cachin
Françoise Cachin (8 May 1936, Paris – 4 February 2011, Paris) was a French art historian and curator. She was the founding director of the Musée d’Orsay and the author of numerous books on 19th-century French painting.
Life
Françoise ...
in collaboration with Michel Melot: ''Manet 1832–1883''. Réunion des Musées Nationaux, Paris, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York 1983, .
*Jean Sutherland Boggs, Henry Loyrette, Michael Pantazzi, Gary Tinterow, ''Degas'', Réunion des Musées Nationaux, Paris, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, New York 1988, .
* A. van Anrooy: ''Impromptu'' Zaltbommel 1982
* Otto Friedrich: ''Edouard Manet und das Paris seiner Zeit'' Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 1994. ; ''Olympia: Paris in the Age of Manet''. New York: HarperCollins, 1992.
* Nancy Locke: ''Manet and the Family Romance''. Princeton University Press, 2001.
* Gotthard Jedlicka: ''Manet'' ZĂĽrich 1941
* Toon van Kempen, Nicoline van de Beek ''Madame Manet'' Uitgeverij Het Archiefcollectief 2016.
* Greenwald, Diana Seave, ed. ''Manet: A Model Family''. Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is an art museum in Boston, Massachusetts, which houses significant examples of European, Asian, and American art. Its collection includes paintings, sculpture, tapestries, and decorative arts. It was found ...
, 2024.
External links
Musée d'Orsay, Manet Dossier: chronology
Norton Simon Museum
{{DEFAULTSORT:Manet, Suzanne Dutch artists' models French artists' models Dutch emigrants to France People from Delft 1829 births 1906 deaths Dutch women pianists 19th-century French women classical pianists 19th-century French classical pianists Édouard Manet