Jeanne Duval
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Florine Prosper known as Jeanne Duval was a Franco-Haitian actress. She was a key muse and longtime partner of poet and art critic Charles Baudelaire, with whom she had an on-again-off-again and tumul
Duval photographed by Félix Nadar (c. 1862)
Félix Nadar self-portrait c. 1860
Portrait of Charles Baudelaire by Étienne Carjat. c. 1862
Portrait of Jeanne Duval, by Charles Baudelaire
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.
Jeanne Duval
…Baudelaire, believed that Duval was the sole woman Baudelaire genuinely loved. Baudelaire exchanged drawings and discussed Jeanne Duval with his friend Apollonie Sabatier, whom he referred to as his la Vénus Blanche and angelic muse, even illustrating Duval's profile in her album. Sabatier inscribed this in her edition…
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.