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

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
See the notice of the artwork

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.