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.
Judith Gautier circa 1880
Judith Gautier, John Singer Sargent, 1885
Mémoires d'un éléphant blanc
Abraham Catulle Mendès was a French poet and man of letters. He was associated with the Parnassianist school.
Judith Gautier
…historical novelist, the daughter of Théophile Gautier and Ernesta Grisi, sister of the noted singer and ballet dancer Carlotta Grisi. She was married to Catulle Mendès, but soon separated from him and had a brief affair with the composer Richard Wagner during the late summer of 1876. She collaborated with Pierre Loti…
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].