Emanuela Potocka, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Emanuela Potocka

French salon-holder

Date of Birth: 10-Oct-1852

Place of Birth: Naples, Campania, Italy

Date of Death: 18-Dec-1930

Profession: salonnière

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Countess Emanuela Potocka, born Princess Emanuela Pignatelli di Cerchiara (1852-1930), was an Italian-Polish noblewoman and fashionable salonière in Paris during the 19th century.
She was a descendant of a high noble family from Italy.
She married the Polish Count Potocki and established herself at the Hôtel Potocki in the 8th arrondissement of Paris.
Her salon became fashionable and was visited and written about by Proust, Maupassant, Barrès, Bourget, Robert de Montesquiou, Reynaldo Hahn, Widor and others.
Jean Béraud also painted her salon.