Abraham Catulle Mendès was a French poet and man of letters. He was associated with the Parnassianist school.
Portrait of Catulle Mendès
A portrait of Mendès' daughters, Huguette, Claudine, and Helyonne, by Auguste Renoir, 1888, at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Sarah Bernhardt as St. Theresa in La Vierge d'Avila (1906)
Le NU au SALON , 1900 (published in 1901). The cover image is of a painting by Jules Scalbert, gravure de Louis Geisler [fr].
Judith Gautier was a French poet, translator and historical novelist, the daughter of Théophile Gautier and Ernesta Grisi, sister of the noted singer and ballet dancer Carlotta Grisi.
Catulle Mendès
…helped define and sustain the Parnassian aesthetic, making him a key figure of the movement and its legacy in French Literature. In 1866, Mendès married Judith Gautier, the younger daughter of his mentor Théophile, but later separated. In 1869, Mendès met the composer Augusta Holmès. Holmès and Mendès later lived…
Judith Gautier circa 1880
Judith Gautier, John Singer Sargent, 1885
Mémoires d'un éléphant blanc