Exhibition at the museum

The Lady with Fans - Nina de Callias, Manet's model

From April 18th to July 16th, 2000 -
Musée d'Orsay
Esplanade Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
75007 Paris
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Edouard Manet-La dame aux éventails
Edouard Manet
La dame aux éventails, en 1873
Musée d'Orsay
Don de M. et Mme Ernest Rouart, 1930
© RMN-Grand Palais (Musée d’Orsay) / Hervé Lewandowski
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The Lady with Fans painted by Manet, Nina de Callias, also known as Nina de Villard, was an engaging personnality of the 1870s : a strong woman, bourgeois with bohemian tastes, spiritual and a musician, she attracted numerous talented writers and artists to her salon, many of whom became true friends.
Curatorship
  • Luce Abélès, Musée d'Orsay and Michael Packenham, Exeter University

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