Eva Gonzalès
(1847 - 1883 )
(1847 - 1883 )
Eva Gonzalès was a French Impressionist painter. She was one of the four most notable female Impressionists in the nineteenth century, along with Mary Cassatt (1844–1926), Berthe Morisot (1841–95), and Marie Bracquemond (1840–1916).
Gonzalès was born in Paris and became introduced to sophisticated literary and art circles at an early age by her father, writer Emmanuel Gonzalès. In 1865, at age sixteen, Eva Gonzalès began her professional training and art lessons in drawing from the society portraitist Charles Chaplin.
Through her father's connections as a founding president of the Société des gens de lettres, she met a variety of members of the Parisian cultural elite, and from a young age was exposed to the new ideas surrounding art and literature at the time. Three years later she met Manet and soon became his model and then his student.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eva_Gonzalès
Gonzalès was born in Paris and became introduced to sophisticated literary and art circles at an early age by her father, writer Emmanuel Gonzalès. In 1865, at age sixteen, Eva Gonzalès began her professional training and art lessons in drawing from the society portraitist Charles Chaplin.
Through her father's connections as a founding president of the Société des gens de lettres, she met a variety of members of the Parisian cultural elite, and from a young age was exposed to the new ideas surrounding art and literature at the time. Three years later she met Manet and soon became his model and then his student.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eva_Gonzalès
The Full-length Mirror
About 1869-70
Oil on canvas
39 x 26.5 cm
The National Gallery, London
https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/eva-gonzales-the-full-length-mirror
About 1869-70
Oil on canvas
39 x 26.5 cm
The National Gallery, London
https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/eva-gonzales-the-full-length-mirror
The young woman is Gonzalès’s younger sister Jeanne, also an artist and her constant model throughout her career. The subject is typical of her portrayals of young women which were shaped by the work of her first teacher Charles Chaplin and her second, Manet. It is probable that Gonzalès painted this in around 1869‒70, just after she became Manet’s only formal pupil.

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