Laure (art model)
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Laure was an art model in France known for her work with artist Édouard Manet. She is best known for posing as the black maid offering the white nude figure a bouquet of flowers in Manet's 1863 painti
La Négresse (1862-63) by Édouard Manet
A page from Manet's notebook showing Laure's address
Children in the Tuileries Garden (1862) by Édouard Manet
Olympia (1863) by Édouard Manet
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
Laure (art model)
…Pollock suggested that she met the artist Édouard Manet while working as a nursemaid in the Tuileries Garden in Paris. Another theory suggests that Jeanne Duval, who was in a relationship with Manet's friend Charles Baudelaire, introduced Manet and Laure. This theory was discussed by Pollock, as well as by Manet…
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