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French painter
A.K.A.
Madeleine Jeanne Colle, Madeleine-Jeanne Coll Lemaire, Madeleine-Jeann...
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Place of birth
Les Arcs
Death
8 April 1928 (aged 83 years)
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Paris
Age
83 years
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Children:
Suzette Lemaire
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Madeleine Lemaire (née Coll) 1845–1928, was a French painter specialized in elegant genre works, and flowers. Robert de Montesquiou said she was The Empress of the Roses. She introduced Marcel Proust and Reynaldo Hahn to the Parisian salons of the aristocracy. She herself held a salon where she received high society in her hôtel particulier on the Rue de Monceau.
George Painter stated in his book Marcel Proust she is one of the models of Proust's Madame Verdurin (In Search of Lost Time).
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