Eva Gonzalès 1849 – 1883
Gonzalès was raised in a cultured bourgeois home by her father, a writer, and her mother a musician. In 1866, at age 16, Eva began taking art lessons with portraitist Charles Chaplin.Three years later she met Manet and soon became his model and then his student. At the 1870 Paris Salon she exhibited her work for the first time. That same year, Manet painted two portraits of her, including the better-known one in which she is shown seated at her easel painting a still life.
Gonzalès’s work faced criticism because of what audiences and critics claimed were overt similarities to the style of Manet, which, at that time, was considered somewhat crude. Her painting A Loge at the Théâtre des Italiens (1874), in particular, drew that comparison. The composition features a man and woman (modeled by Gonzalès’s sister Jeanne with engraver Henri Guérard, whom Eva later married) in a lush box at the opera. Her depiction of the figures with very pale skin set against a dark background recalled Manet’s portraits. Furthermore, a bouquet of flowers placed in the lower left-hand corner mimics the bouquet in Manet’s infamous Olympia (1863) painting, a reference that did not escape viewers of Gonzalès’s painting. Though she was a contemporary of the Impressionists, including Mary Cassatt and Berthe Morisot, and is often grouped with them from an art historical perspective, Gonzalès adhered more to a realist aesthetic and opted to remain within the confines of the academic salons instead.
From: www.britannica.com
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| Bouquet of Violets 1865 | A Lady 1865-1870 | Jeanne Gonzales in Profile 1865-1870 | Portrait of a Young Woman 1865-1870 | The Chignon 1865-1870 | Elegant with a shawl. Elegante au chale 1865-1883 | The Sparrow 1865-1870 | The Window. La Fenêtre 1865-1870 | Lady with a Fan 1869-1870 |
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| Portrait of a Woman 1869-1870 | Portrait of Mme. E. G. 1869-1870 | Child with a pipe 1870 | Girl with Cherries 1870 | Portrait of Jeanne Gonzales 1870-1872 | A bouquet of a daffodil and various other flowers 1871-1872 | Farm at Rebais. Seine-et-Marne 1871-1872 | On the Water 1871-1872 | Peonies and June Bug 1871-1872 |
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| Still LIfe with Two Peaches and Grapes 1871-1872 | The Indolence. L'Indolence 1871-1872 | The Young Pupil 1871-1872 | La Plante Favorite 1871-1872 | Ferme en Brie 1871-1872 | Le Sentier 1871-1872 | Still life with two onions 1871-1872 | Bouquet de fleurs 1873-1874 | A Box at the Italian Theatre 1874 |
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| Afternoon Tea. On the Terrace 1875 | Branch of Peaches 1875-1876 | In The Boat. En bateau 1875-1876 | In the Park 1875-1876 | The Little Lever 1875-1876 | Dessert 1875-1876 | Alcove. L'Alcôve 1875-1878 | Sur la plage, Dieppe. Sur la plage, Dieppe 1875-1880 | Woman Awakening 1876 |
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| The Milliner 1877 | Nanny with a Child 1877-1878 | Secretly 1877-1878 | Sweet Apples 1877-1878 | The Fruit Bowl 1878 | La demoiselle d'Honneur 1879 | Portrait of a Woman in White 1879 | Self Portrait 1879 | The Woman in Pink 1879 |
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| White Shoes 1879-1880 | La Danse. Etude pour un éventail 1879-1880 | The Donkey Ride 1880 | Reading in the Garden 1880-1882 | Roses in a Glass 1880-1882 | The Painter and His Model 1880-1882 | Interior of the Milliner 1882-1883 | Spanish Woman. Portrait of the Milliner 1882-1883 | Femme Pensive Assise En Bord De Mer 1882-1883 |
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| An actress with a mask 1865-1883 | Bateau à marée basse 1865-1883 | Dieppe Beach View From The Cliff West 1865-1883 | Flowers 1865-1883 | L'Avant Port. Dieppe 1865-1883 | Portrait of Jeanne Gonzales in Profile 1865-1883 | Reading in the Forest 1865-1883 | The Toilet 1865-1883 | Vase of Roses, early 1870s |
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| Women in White 1865-1883 | Portrait de femme. Portrait of woman 1865-1883 | Prunes, raisins. Plums, grapes 1865-1883 |