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Jacques Émile Blanche

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Jacques Émile Blanche

Birth
Paris, City of Paris, Île-de-France, France
Death
30 Sep 1942 (aged 81)
Offranville, Departement de la Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France
Burial
Paris, City of Paris, Île-de-France, France Add to Map
Plot
Division 2
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Psychiatrists and painters.Painter. He was a very successful French portrait painter (best known today for his portrait of writer Marcel Proust, poet Pierre Louÿs, singer Yvette Guilbert and infamous countess of Castiglione, emperor Napoleon III's mistress). Friend with others painters like Édouard Manet, he also knew Henry James and is mentioned by Gertrude Stein in her "Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas".
Psychiatrists and painters.Painter. He was a very successful French portrait painter (best known today for his portrait of writer Marcel Proust, poet Pierre Louÿs, singer Yvette Guilbert and infamous countess of Castiglione, emperor Napoleon III's mistress). Friend with others painters like Édouard Manet, he also knew Henry James and is mentioned by Gertrude Stein in her "Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas".


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