Madeleine Lemaire, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Madeleine Lemaire

French painter

Date of Birth: 24-May-1845

Place of Birth: Les Arcs, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France

Date of Death: 08-Apr-1928

Profession: illustrator, painter, salonnière

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Madeleine Lemaire, née Coll (1845 – 8 April 1928) was a French painter specialized in elegant genre works, and flowers.
Robert de Montesquiou said she was The Empress of the Roses.
She introduced Marcel Proust and Reynaldo Hahn to the Parisian salons of the aristocracy.
She herself held a salon where she received high society in her hôtel particulier on the Rue de Monceau. Lemaire exhibited her work at the Palace of Fine Arts and The Woman's Building at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois.George Painter stated in his book Marcel Proust she is one of the models of Proust's Madame Verdurin (In Search of Lost Time).



Alternative names	Paul Tournachon Nadar
Description	French photographer son of Félix Tournachon (Nadar)
Date of birth/death	8 February 1856	1 September 1939
Location of birth/death	Paris	Paris
Work location	Paris (1873–1939)
Authority control	: Q4141511 VIAF: 83007 ISNI: 0000 0001 0861 2552 ULAN: 500027123 LCCN: n78008681 Open Library: OL793778A WorldCat