Madeleine Lemaire, ''née'' Coll (1845 – 8 April 1928), was a French painter who specialized in elegant

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and flowers.

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said she was ''The Empress of the Roses''. She introduced

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and

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to the Parisian

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s of the aristocracy. She herself held a ''salon'' where she received high society in her ''

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'' on the Rue de Monceau. Lemaire exhibited her work at the

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and The Woman's Building at the 1893

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in Chicago, Illinois.

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stated in his book ''Marcel Proust'' she is one of the models of Proust's Madame Verdurin (''

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'').

Links

''The Salon of Mme Madeleine Lemaire''Madeleine Jeanne Lemaire – Artworks
on ''The Athenaeum''

References

Gallery

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