Hidden in the shadow of the master : the model-wives of Cezanne, Monet, and Rodin / Ruth Butler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Butler, Ruth, 1931-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cézanne, Paul, 1839-1906--Relations with women.

Cézanne, Paul.

Monet, Claude, 1840-1926--Relations with women.

Monet, Claude.

Rodin, Auguste, 1840-1917--Relations with women.

Rodin, Auguste.

Artists' spouses--France--Biography.

Artists' spouses.

Artists' models--France--Biography.

Artists' models.

Artists--France--History--19th century.

Artists.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (376 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 roles did they play in the lives and the art of their famous husbands?In this remarkable book of discovery, art historian Ruth Butler coaxes three shadowy women out of obscurity and introduces them for the first time as individuals. Through unprecedented research, Butler has been able to create portraits of Hortense Fiquet, Camille Doncieux, and Rose Beuret-the models, and later the wives, respectively, of Cézanne, Monet, and Rodin, three of the most famous French artists of their generation. The book tells the stories of three ordinary women who faced issues of a dramatically changing society as well as the challenges of life with a striving genius. Butler illuminates the ways in which these model-wives figured in their husbands' achievements and provides new analyses of familiar works of art. Filled with captivating detail, the book recovers the lives of Hortense, Camille, and Rose, and recognizes with new insight how their unique relationships enriched the quality of their husbands' artistic endeavors.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Introduction: Recognizing the Model and Her Work

1. Hortense Fiquet and Paul Cézanne

2. Single Mother

3. Sixty Francs for Hortense

4. Hortense at Thirty: In the Salon, in the Garden, in Bed

5. A Dark Blue Wedding Dress?

6. Fifteen Hectares of Fallow Land

7. For or Against Hortense?

8. After October 1906

9. Camille Doncieux and Claude Monet

10. Camille-Or-The Green Dress

11. A Garden Full of Dresses

12. Without a Sou

13. Why Did He Marry Her?

14. The Second Empire Disappears

15. The "Impressionist" Couple

16. Money and La Japonaise

17. A Patron

18. Death in a Village by the River

19. Epilogue

20. Rose Beuret and Auguste Rodin

21. From Vecqueville to the Banks of the Bièvre

22. A Woman's Body

23. Montmartre and the Commune

24. Ixelles

25. The Return Home

26. The Commission That Changed Everything

27. A House in Meudon

28. The Dark Side of Being the Old Mistress of a Genius

29. The War and the Wedding

Afterword. "The Humble Son of a Genius"

Appendix

Acknowledgments

Notes

Works Consulted

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 335-343) and index.

ISBN:

9786612352096

9786612089589

9780300149531

0300149530

9781282352094

1282352091

9781282089587

1282089587

OCLC:

379815734