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].
Teresa of Ávila, religious name Teresa of Jesus, was a Carmelite nun, prominent Spanish mystic and spiritual reformer.
Catulle Mendès
…Soleille de Minuit was completed in April 1875 and a year later it appeared in the third series of Parnasse contemporain. For theatre Sarah Bernhardt as St. Theresa in La Vierge d'Avila (1906) La Part du roi (1872), a one-act verse comedy Les Frères d'armes (1873), drama Justice (1877), in three acts, characterized…
Saint Teresa of Ávila by Eduardo Balaca
Young Teresa of Ávila and brother run away from home to travel to Africa by Arnold van Westerhout
Church window at the Convent of St Teresa
Letter from Teresa of Ávila to her niece, Madre María Bautista (1575)