Eva Gonzalès

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Portrait of Eva Gonzalès, 1869-1870, by Édouard Manet. The painting she is shown completing here demonstrates the mastery she had achieved at that age. However, it should be noted that this depiction of Gonzales is less than flattering in that her dress, her posture and technique are not actually those of a professional to painting. The painting that Gonzales is working on is not her own, but actually one of Manet's.
Portrait of Eva Gonzalès, 1869-1870, by Édouard Manet. The painting she is shown completing here demonstrates the mastery she had achieved at that age. However, it should be noted that this depiction of Gonzales is less than flattering in that her dress, her posture and technique are not actually those of a professional to painting. The painting that Gonzales is working on is not her own, but actually one of Manet's.

Eva Gonzalès (April 19, 1849 – May 6, 1883) was a French Impressionist painter.

Like her teacher, Édouard Manet, she never exhibited with the Impressionist painters in their controversial exhibitions in Paris, but she is considered part of the group because of her painting style. She was Manet's only formal student and modeled frequently for several members of the Impressionist school.

She married Henri Guérard and used him and her sister Jeanne Gonzales as the subjects for many of her paintings. Her career was cut short when she died in childbirth at the age of thirty-four, exactly six days after the death of her teacher, Manet.

[edit] Gallery

Plage de Dieppe vue depuis la falaise Ouest, Château-Musée, Dieppe, France 1871

Enfant de troupe, Musée Gaston Rapin, Villeneuve-sur-Lot, France, 1870

The Donkey Ride, City Museum & Art Gallery, Bristol, England 1880

Afternoon Tea or On the Terrace, Private Collection 1875

An actress with a mask, Private Collection

L'Avant Port (Dieppe), Private Collection

L'Indolence, Private Collection 1871-72

La Toilette, Private Collection 1879

La jeune élève (Portrait of Sister as Artist), Private Collection 1871-72

Le petit lever, Private Collection 1875

Morning Awakening, Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen, Germany 1876

Nounou avec enfant, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. 1877-78

Portrait of Jeanne Gonzales in Profile, Private Collection

Portrait of a Woman in White, Private Collection 1879

Reading in the Forest, Musée du Petit Palais, Paris 1880

Roses dans un verre, Private Collection 1880-82

Secretly, Private Collection 1877-78

The Milliner, The Art Institute of Chicago c.1877

Une loge aux Italiens, Musée d'Orsay, Paris 1874

White Shoes, Private Collection 1879-80

Woman in White, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C. 1879

[edit] Further reading

  • Marie-Caroline Sainsaulieu, Jacques de Mons: Eva Gonzalès: 1849 - 1883; étude critique et catalogue raisonné . Paris 1990
  • Marianne Delafond: Les femmes impressionnistes: Mary Cassatt, Eva Gonzalès, Berthe Morisot. Paris 1993 ISBN 2-85047-227-1


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