Suzanne Manet

Suzanne Manet, born Leenhoff ( born October 30, 1829 in Delft, † March 8, 1906 in Paris) was a pianist and wife as well as a common model of the painter Édouard Manet.

Life

The Suzanne Leenhoffs family moved during her childhood by Zaltbommel, where her father was a church musician. According to records of Dr. A. van Anrooy Franz Liszt to have in transit from Bonn to London is part of the Father's Carillonspiel in the late summer of 1845 and then be turned around in the house Leenhoff. He was so impressed by the piano playing the daughter Suzanne On this occasion, that he recommended to continue their education in Paris her. According Anrooy Liszt wanted to convey their teachers also appropriate and necessary for the livelihood of students.

These students were since 1849 Eugène Manet ( 1833-1892 ) and Gustave Manet ( 1835-1884 ), the younger brothers of Édouard Manet. On January 29, 1852, her son Léon Leenhoff was born. Suzanne was as a father to a certain Koella, about whose identity is not known. Édouard Manet was the godfather of Léon. Many authors have assumed that Édouard Manet was the father of Léon; recent research suggests a paternity of Auguste Manet, Édouard Manet's father. Suzanne and Leon lived with Suzanne's brothers, the sculptor and the painter Ferdinand Leenhoff Rudolph Leenhoff and her grandmother in an apartment. Nearby you have lived her sister Mathilde, who was married to the sculptor Joseph Mezzara.

It is unclear when the relationship between Suzanne Leenhoff and Édouard Manet began, which he hid for years from the public. The two married on October 28, 1863, ie one year after the death of Manet's father. Charles Baudelaire wrote in October 1863 surprise to a friend: " Manet has just told me a totally unexpected news. Tonight he went to Holland and will return from there with his wife. It is apparently ... nice, very nice and a very great artist. "

Suzanne Manet went to live with her husband, the mother and her son Léon in a household. Léon was not introduced as a younger brother named Suzanne Léon Leenhoff in the family and the society of Paris. They even held a weekly salon, and was a brilliant pianist. Your favorite composers Robert Schumann, Ludwig van Beethoven and Richard Wagner.

After the death of Édouard Manet's 1883 Suzanne initially lived in the home of Cousin Jules de Jouy in Gennevilliers, then in Asnières and her son in Paris on rue Saint -Dominique 94 Due to financial difficulties she was forced in age, gradually to separate from the images of her husband. As a reminder, let them make copies of some of the pictures that appeared on the art market after her death as originals.

Gallery

Suzanne Manet Edouard Manet depicted on numerous paintings, including the following main works:

The reading

Mme Manet on a blue sofa

Mme Manet in the Greenhouse