Victorine Meurent is remembered for work the next generation could not ignore.
The record lists Victorine Meurent as French painter, model for painters (1844-1927).
Victorine Meurent was born at former 6th arrondissement of Paris in 1844. Her recorded nationality is France. She trained at Académie Julian.
The nineteenth century broke the academy's authority: independent exhibitions, dealers and the beginnings of modernism.
She worked as painter and art model.
Her best-known work is Self-Portrait. A painting outlives the argument about it, which is the only durable form of an artistic reputation.
That the work was made in France shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
Victorine Meurent died in 1927, aged 83. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
Achievements
- Notable work: Self-Portrait
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