Duez, Mme. Amélie

Duez, Mme. Amélie Born Amélie Manet, sister of painter Edouard Manet (1832 – 1883). Singer, salon hostess, wife of painter Ernest-Ange Duez (1843 – 1896). He showed a work in the Salon of 1874 titled »Les splendeurs et misères d'une courtisane« (Spendors and Miseries of a Courtesan, named after the novel [1844] of Balzac [1799 – 1850]) that was admired by Zola (1840 – 1902). He created many traditional society portraits, landscapes, and seascapes utilizing some proto-Impressionist techniques…