Édouard Manet
Portrait of Victorine Meurent (1862)
Victorine Louise Meurent (February 18, 1844 – March 17, 1927) was a French painter and a famous model for painters. Although she is now best known as the favourite model of Édouard Manet (her name remains forever associated with Manet’s masterpieces, The Luncheon on the Grass and Olympia, which include nude portrayals of her), she also was an artist in her own right, who exhibited repeatedly at the prestigious Paris Salon. In 1876 her paintings were selected for inclusion at the Salon’s juried exhibition, when Manet’s work was not.