ML
The basics
Quick facts
Intro
French painter
A.K.A.
Madeleine Jeanne Colle, Madeleine-Jeanne Coll Lemaire, Madeleine-Jeanne Coll, Madeleine Jeanne Lemaire
Gender:
Female
Places:
Birth:
1 January 1845(Les Arcs)
Death:
8 April 1928(Paris)
Family:
Children:
Suzette Lemaire
The details
Biography
Introduction
Madeleine Lemaire (née Coll) 1845–1928, was a French painter specialized in elegant genre works, and flowers. Robert de Montesquiou said she was The Empress of the Roses. She introduced Marcel Proust and Reynaldo Hahn to the Parisian salons of the aristocracy. She herself held a salon where she received high society in her hôtel particulier on the Rue de Monceau.
George Painter stated in his book Marcel Proust she is one of the models of Proust's Madame Verdurin (In Search of Lost Time).