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Suzanne Manet (UK: / ˈ m æ n eɪ /, US: / m æ ˈ n eɪ, m ə ˈ-/; née Leenhoff; 30 October 1829 – 8 March 1906) was a Dutch-born pianist and the wife of the painter Édouard Manet, for whom she frequently modeled.
Sep 4, 2018 · In 1849, Suzanne Leenhoff was employed by the wealthy, bourgeois Manet family to teach their sons Édouard (aged 17) and Eugène (16), the piano. Why Leenhoff, then herself only 19 years old, left Zaltbommer in Holland and traveled alone to Paris is not known.
Manet undertook only six portraits of his wife, the Dutch pianist Suzanne Leenhoff, in the years after their marriage in 1863. Half were left unfinished, including the present work, providing rare insight into the artist’s technique.
Sep 24, 2023 · Suzanne Manet played the piano while her husband Édouard reclined on the sofa, lost in reverie. But this particular evening would be immortalized by their friend Edgar Degas, who, with his talent for total recall, would go home and paint the scene as a gift for the young couple.
Title: Madame Manet (Suzanne Leenhoff, 1829–1906) at Bellevue. Artist: Edouard Manet (French, Paris 1832–1883 Paris) Date: 1880. Medium: Oil on canvas. Dimensions: 31 3/4 x 23 3/4 in. (80.6 x 60.3 cm) Classification: Paintings
Madame Manet. 1874-1876. Édouard Manet (French, 1832-1883) On View. Manet met his future wife, Suzanne Leenhoff, in 1850, when she arrived in his parents’ household as a piano teacher.
Suzanne Manet, born Suzanne Leenhoff (30 October 1829 in Delft - 8 March 1906 in Paris) was a Dutch-born pianist and the wife of the painter Édouard Manet, for whom she frequently modeled. Suzanne became unmarried mother in 1852 to Léon Edouard Koëlla Leenhoff, who was painted very often by Manet.
