It’s already 75 episodes of Paris History Avec a Hemingway and we can hardly believe it. In this week's episode we reflect on a few of them and how you can still find them today in Paris.
We have covered many of the wonderful female artists over time, a few that you may have known and a few that have been forgotten to time. Berthe Morisot, Camille Claudel and Mary Cassatt are easy to find in the Musée d’Orsay on the walls along with Rose Bonheur and her amazing large scale paintings of animals. However don’t miss Manet’s capturing of Victorine Meurent and Renoir’s Suzanne Valadon who would each become artists on their own.
In a small hall within the permanent collection of the Pompidou you can find a collection of her sketches and paintings and after venture up to the Musée de Montmartre to take a peek into her former studio complete with her easels and palettes.
My beloved Musée du Louvre also has a few ladies to search out after you say a long bonjour to Winged Victory of Samothrace. Elisabeth Vigee Lebrun is known as the painter to Marie Antoinette but she did tons of portraits before she painted the fated queen including the first smile in western art. Other ladies were captured on the canvas including Diane de Poitiers, Madame Recamier, the love of Henri IV Gabrille d’Estrees and Empress Eugenie.
Other smaller museums hold a few ladies including the Musée Marmottan Monet and a brand new special exhibit devoted to Julie Manet, daughter of Berthe Morisot and niece of Manet who counted the greatest artists of the Impressionist period as her “uncles”.
There are even more we chat about in the newest episode of Paris History Avec a Hemingway on La Vie Creative podcast.
Grab a notebook and start jotting down a list for when you return to Paris and check out all the past episodes you may have missed.