Eva gonzales biography artist

Eva Gonzalès (1847–1883) was the daughter of Emmanuel Gonzalès (1815–1887), writer and dramatist, and Marie Céline Raguet (1823–1880), musician and singer.

Her parents held soirées attended by prominent writers and artists. While initially taught at home, from early 1866 she studied in the women-only studio run by Charles Chaplin (1825–1891), an artist known for his portrayals of women painted in an eighteenth-century style.

Unusually, she would have been able to study from the life model at a special class held early in the morning.

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In February 1869 Belgian: Stevens, Alfred (1823 - 1906) introduced her to Edouard Manet, who accepted her as his only formal pupil. In the summer of that year he embarked on his monumental portrait of her seated at her easel, French: Manet, Edouard, //Eva Gonzalès// (NG3259), which he exhibited at the Salon of 1870.

Gonzalès made her debut at this Salon with three works