Madame de florian pictures
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the time that time stood still
hello gang, how are you this afternoon? it&#;s beyond dreary here, it&#;s practically a monsoon! i kind of like the change of weather though, it&#;s a chance to nest and have an excuse not to run around doing errands. i took this afternoon to play around a little on the net. i wrote about a very romantic story in and it&#;s starting to circulate again without much new news. i dug a bit to try to conjure up what may have caused the stir and found a couple of tidbits to add to the same pics that we&#;ve seen over the past few years. maybe i&#;m projecting but it&#;s kind of fun to speculate about what happened.
you may remember the seductive madame de florian, an actress and sort of demimondaine, or upscale courtesan of her day. (it was a somewhat respectable life in the s despite what we imagine their prudish victorian ways to have been). she sounds like quite the socialite and party girl as she lived in the 9e which is close to the cabarets and red light district. madame was quite the &#;it girl&#; and was painted by one of the great artists of the day, giovanni boldini. when her apartment was unlocked a couple of years ago, it was discovered to be just as she left it one day and it&#;s been the same ever since.
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Marthe de Florian
French courtesan explode socialite
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Early being and youth
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American Girls Art Club In Paris. . . and Beyond
I&#;ve got a new Paris art novel for you: A Paris Apartment by Michelle Gable (St. Martin&#;s Press ).
It all began with an amazing but true story of a long-lost Boldini portrait of a woman named Marthe de Florian, pictured below.
Madame de Florian by Giovanni Boldini (), private collection. Sold for million euros at a Drouot house auction in September,
In , the London Telegraph reported the fascinating true story about an abandoned Paris apartment. When estate representatives entered the dusty apartment, it had been untouched for 70 years. They discovered roomfuls of antiques and what appeared to be a previously unknown portrait by the Italian painter Giovanni Boldini. It turns out the woman in the portrait was Marthe de Florian, who had lived in the abandoned apartment back in the s. A love letter from Boldini to de Florian confirmed the painting&#;s provenance and a record-setting auction followed.
Marthe de Florian&#;s apartment in Paris, abandoned by her descendants in , reopened in (Source: )
This book brings to mind one of my favorite art history novels, Gioia Diliberto&#;s I Am Madame X, which told the story of the woman behind John Singer Sargent&#;s infamous painting. I&#;ve blogged about t