Méry Laurant. [Source: Wikimedia Commons]
THe Irish writer George Moore considered Méry Laurent “the epitome of the witty, charming woman of fashion, an embodiment of the spirit of liberation from hypocrisy.” He asked her once why she did not leave her benefactor, Dr. Thomas Evans, for Manet. Evans was a rich American expatriate who secured his station in Parisian high society as the dentist of Napoleon III. “Why should I descend to a meanness,” Méry replied, “when I could find contentment and perhaps happiness in being unfaithful to him?”
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she is beautiful
Édouard Manet surely thought so. See his Woman in a Bathtub (1878-79), now at the Musee d’Orsay, Paris.
verry prety………..