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Butler, Ruth, 1931-

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

New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2008.

xiv, 354 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

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, after, the wives, respectively, of Cézanne, Monet, and Rodin, the three most famous French artists of their generation.

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

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

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

Artists' spouses -- France -- Biography.

Artists' models -- France -- Biography.

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

Biographies.

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

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.

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