Eugène Cyrille Brunet was a French sculptor, born in Sarcelles in 1828 to André Brunet and Aglaé-Julie Drouet. He died in 1921. Brunet studied under Armand Toussaint at the École des beaux-arts. There he met Édouard Manet and the two made a study trip to Florence in 1857. In October 1861 he married Caroline de Pène,[1] who was painted by Manet about that time.[2] A mustached head and shoulders of the artist himself appears looking to one side in the left background of Manet's La Musique aux Tuileries (1862).[3] In Manet's address book he is recorded as living in Brittany.[4]
A sculptor of Classical subjects, Brunet is best known for his sensuous marble statue of the recumbent Messalina, exhibited at the 1884 Salon.
References
edit- ^ Annuaire de la noblesse de France et des maisons souveraines de l'Europe, vol. 19, Paris 1862, p.272
- ^ "Toledo Museum" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-04-08. Retrieved 2013-06-19.
- ^ The Ark of Grace
- ^ Leah Rosenblatt Lehmbeck, Edouard Manet's Portraits of Women, University of New York 2007 p.231
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