Eugène Cyrille Brunet was a French sculptor, born in

Sarcelles Sarcelles () is a commune in the northern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the centre of Paris. Sarcelles is a sub-prefecture of the Val-d'Oise department and the seat of the arrondissement of Sarcelles. In the south of the commun ...

in 1828 to André Brunet and Aglaé-Julie Drouet. He died in 1921. Brunet studied under

Armand Toussaint The French sculptor François Christophe Armand Toussaint was born in Paris on April 7, 1806, and died there on May 24, 1862. The son of a locksmith, Armand Toussaint entered the École des Beaux-Arts in 1827 and studied under David d'Angers. I ...

at the

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. There he met

Édouard Manet Édouard Manet (, ; ; 23 January 1832 – 30 April 1883) was a French modernist painter. He was one of the first 19th-century artists to paint modern life, as well as a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism. Born ...

and the two made a study trip to

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in 1857. In October 1861 he married Caroline de Pène, who was painted by Manet about that time. A mustached head and shoulders of the artist himself appears looking to one side in the left background of Manet's ''La Musique aux Tuileries'' (1862). In Manet's address book he is recorded as living in Brittany.Leah Rosenblatt Lehmbeck, ''Edouard Manet's Portraits of Women'', University of New York 200
p.231
/ref> A sculptor of Classical subjects, Brunet is best known for his sensuous marble statue of the recumbent

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, exhibited at the 1884

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