Ellen Andrée (born Hélène Marie André; 7 March 1856 – 9 December 1933Acte de décès n° 1216 (vue 17/24).
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for

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. Bo ...

, Edgar Degas and Pierre-Auguste Renoir and other impressionists, in the 1870s.

Life

Andrée was born in 1856 in

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and lived in the Rue du Rocher. She started working as a model, and has become notable because she appeared in a number of important impressionist paintings. She became an actress in the Naturalist style of theatre, in which the purpose was to give a near perfect view of real scenes and not to rely on the audience's imagination. She worked in that profession for several decades, appearing in plays and comedies such as those by Sacha Guitry and

Georges Courteline Georges Courteline born Georges Victor Marcel Moinaux (25 June 1858 – 25 June 1929) was a French dramatist and novelist, a satirist notable for his sharp wit and cynical humor. Biography His family moved from Tours in Indre-et-Loire to Pari ...

, but it was the brief period in the 1870s, when she was a model for a number of artists, most importantly

, Edgar Degas and Pierre-Auguste Renoir, that made her name. In 1878 she was the model for ''Rolla'', a painting by

Henri Gervex Henri Gervex (Paris 10 December 1852 – 7 June 1929 Paris) was a French painter who studied painting under Alexandre Cabanel, Pierre-Nicolas Brisset, and Eugène Fromentin. Biography Early years He was the son of Joséphine Peltier and Félix ...

, that was based on a poem by Alfred de Musset. Pierre-Auguste Renoir - Luncheon of the Boating Party (Detail of Ellen Andrée)

Bibliography

* Jean Sutherland Boggs: ''Degas''. Ausstellungskatalog Paris, Ottawa, New York, Réunion des musées nationaux, Paris 1988, . *

Françoise Cachin Françoise Cachin (8 May 1936, Paris – 4 February 2011, Paris) was a French art historian and curator. She was the founding director of the Musée d’Orsay and the author of numerous books on 19th-century French painting. Life Françoise ...

: ''Manet''. DuMont, Köln 1991 * John Collins: ''Ellen Andrée'' in Berk Jiminez: ''Dictionary of Artists' Models''. Fitzroy Dearborn, Chicago 2001, . * Bernard Denvir: ''The chronicle of Impressionism''. Thames and Hudson, London 1993, . * Benoît Noël, Jean Hournon: ''Parisiana : la capitale des peintres au XIXe siècle''. Presses Franciliennes, Paris 2006, . *

Theodore Reff Theodore Franklin Reff (born 1930) is Professor Emeritus of European Painting and Sculpture, 1840–1940 at Columbia University. Reff is an expert on French art of the nineteenth century, and in particular Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas and Édouar ...

: ''Manet and modern Paris''. National Gallery of Art, Washington und University of Chicago Press, Chicago und London 1982, . * Maryanne Stevens, Colin B. Bailey, Stephane Guegan: ''Manet, portraying life'', Ausstellungskatalog Toledo Museum of Art und Royal Academy of Arts 2012–13, Royal Academy of Arts, London 2012, . * Terry W. Strieter: ''Nineteenth-century European art''. Aldwych Press, London 1999, . * Adolphe Tabarant: ''Manet et ses oeuvres''. Gallimard, Paris 1947.

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Verzeichnis der Bühnenrollen mit Ellen Andrée (Auswahl)

''Rolla''
1857 births 1925 deaths Actresses from Paris French stage actresses 19th-century French actresses French artists' models {{France-actor-stub