Apollonie Sabatier
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Apollonie Sabatier was a French singer, artist's model and courtesan, who became a salon hostess and bohemian muse to many of the French artists of 1850s Paris.
Portrait of Apollonie Sabatier by Vincent Vidal, Musée National du château de Compiègne.
Apollonie Sabatier, sculpted by Auguste Clésinger as Woman Bitten by a Serpent in 1847, today in Musée d'Orsay
L'Atelier du peintre.
Charles Baudelaire
Auguste Clésinger
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Jean-Baptiste Auguste Clésinger was a 19th-century French sculptor and painter.
Apollonie Sabatier
…Garnier after school. She changed her name to Apollonie and became a painter's model and posed for the statue Femme piquée par un serpent (1847) by Auguste Clésinger which is currently on display at the Musée d'Orsay. This image caused a scandal at the Salon of 1847 and made sculptor and model famous. The piece was…
Jean Baptiste Clésinger dit Auguste, 1814 1883
Leda and the swan, Musée de Picardie, Amiens
Euterpe, muse of Music, funerary monument at the grave of Frédéric Chopin, Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, by Auguste Clésinger (1850)