Eva Gonzalès

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Portrait of Eva Gonzalès, 1869-1870, by Édouard Manet. The painting she is shown completing here demonstrates the mastery she had achieved at that age. However, this depiction of Gonzalès is less than flattering in that her dress, her posture and technique are not actually those of a professional to painting. The painting that Gonzalès is working on is not her own, but actually one of Manet's. It is currently on display at Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane.

Eva Gonzalès (April 19, 1849 – May 6, 1883) was a French Impressionist painter.

Eva Gonzalès was born in Paris into the family of the writer Emmanuel Gonzalès. In 1865, she began her professional training and took lessons in drawing from the society portraitist Charles Chaplin.

Gonzalès became a pupil of the artist Édouard Manet in February 1869. Manet is said to have begun a portrait of her at once which was completed on 12 March 1870 and exhibited at Salon in that year.

Like her teacher, Édouard Manet, she never exhibited with the Impressionist painters in their controversial exhibitions in Paris, but she is considered part of the group because of her painting style. She was Manet's only formal student and modeled frequently for several members of the Impressionist school. Gonzalès posed for Manet in 1869 for the painting "Portrait of Mlle Gonzalès", a work which has previously been discussed more than Gonzalès' oeuvre at her own 1885 retrospective and at Galerie Daber's exhibition for her work in 1950.

While studying under Manet, Gonzalès self-portraits suggest she was exploring her individuality and identity as an artist by presenting subtle correctives to Manet's version of her. Until 1872, she was strongly influenced by Manet but later developed her own, more personal style.

During the Franco-Prussian War she sought refuge in Dieppe.

She married the graphic artist Henri Guérard in 1879, and used him and her sister Jeanne Gonzalès as the subjects for many of her paintings.

Her work was exhibited at the offices of the art review L'Art in 1882 and at the Galerie Georges Petit in 1883. Her career was cut short when she died in childbirth at the age of thirty-four, exactly six days after the death of her teacher, Manet.

In 1885, after her death a retrospective of 88 works was held at the Salons de La Vie Moderne.

Gallery

• Gonzales LadyWithAFan MIA 7281.jpg

  Lady With A Fan, 1869-1870

• Eva GonzalÈs - Plage de Dieppe vue depuis la falaise Ouest.jpg

  Plage de Dieppe vue depuis la falaise Ouest, Château-Musée, Dieppe, France 1871

• Eva Gonzales - Enfant de troupe.JPG

  Enfant de troupe, Musée Gaston Rapin, Villeneuve-sur-Lot, France, 1870

• Eva Gonzalès - - The Donkey Ride.jpg

  The Donkey Ride, City Museum & Art Gallery, Bristol, England 1880

• Eva Gonzalès - Afternoon Tea or On the Terrace.jpg

  Afternoon Tea or On the Terrace, Private Collection 1875

• Eva Gonzalès - An actress with a mask.jpg

  An actress with a mask, Private Collection

• Eva Gonzalès - L'AVANT PORT (DIEPPE).jpg

  L'Avant Port (Dieppe), Private Collection

• Eva Gonzalès - L'Indolence.jpg

  L'Indolence, Private Collection 1871-72

• Eva Gonzalès - La Toilette.jpg

  La Toilette, Private Collection 1879

• Eva Gonzalès - La jeune élève.jpg

  La jeune élève (Portrait of Sister as Artist), Private Collection 1871-72

• Eva Gonzalès - Le Petit Lever.jpg

  Le petit lever, Private Collection 1875

• Eva Gonzalès - Morning Awakening.jpg

  Morning Awakening, Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen, Germany 1876

• Eva Gonzalès - Nounou avec enfant.jpg

  Nounou avec enfant, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. 1877-78

• Eva Gonzalès - Portrait of Jeanne Gonzales in Profile.jpg

  Portrait of Jeanne Gonzales in Profile, Private Collection

• Eva Gonzalès - Portrait of a Woman in White.jpg

  Portrait of a Woman in White, Private Collection 1879

• Eva Gonzalès - Reading in the Forest.jpg

  Reading in the Forest, Musée du Petit Palais, Paris 1880

• Eva Gonzalès - Roses dans un verre.jpg

  Roses dans un verre, Private Collection 1880-82

• Eva Gonzalès - Secretly.jpg

  Secretly, Private Collection 1877-78

• Eva Gonzalès - The Milliner.jpg

  The Milliner, The Art Institute of Chicago c.1877

• Eva Gonzalès - Une loge aux Italiens.jpg

  Une loge aux Italiens, Musée d'Orsay, Paris 1874

• Eva Gonzalès - White Shoes.jpg

  White Shoes, Private Collection 1879-80

• Eva Gonzalès - Women in White.jpg

  Woman in White, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C. 1879

Further reading

• Marie-Caroline Sainsaulieu, Jacques de Mons: Eva Gonzalès: 1849 - 1883; étude critique et catalogue raisonné . Paris 1990
• Marianne Delafond: Les femmes impressionnistes: Mary Cassatt, Eva Gonzalès, Berthe Morisot. Paris 1993 ISBN 2-85047-227-1

External links

• National Gallery London. Notes. Accessed March 2015
• Olga's Gallery Notes. Accessed March 2015
• Spaightwood galleries Biography. Accessed March 2015