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Suzanne Manet (UK: / ˈ m æ n eɪ /, US: / m æ ˈ n eɪ, m ə ˈ-/; née Leenhoff; 30 October 1829 – 8 March 1906) was a Dutch-born pianist and the wife of the painter Édouard Manet, for whom she frequently modeled.
Manet painted his wife in The Reading, among other paintings. Her son, Leon Leenhoff, whose father may have been either of the Manets, posed often for Manet. Most famously, he is the subject of the Boy Carrying a Sword of 1861 (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
Żoną Eduarada Maneta 1832 – 1883 była holenderką, Suzanne Leenhoff 1829-1906. Poznali się w 1851 roku, pobrali 10 lat później, dokładnie 28 października 1862 roku w miejscowości Zalt-Bromme w Holandii. Zamieszkali wspólnie w Paryżu przy boulevard des Batignolles 34.
Urodził się jako pierworodny syn w zamożnej mieszczańskiej rodzinie. Jego ojciec, Auguste Manet, był prawnikiem, pełnił obowiązki szefa gabinetu w Ministerstwie Sprawiedliwości.
Manet met his future wife, Suzanne Leenhoff, in 1850, when she arrived in his parents’ household as a piano teacher. Before their marriage, Suzanne served as the model for Manet’s first history painting, and she continued through the succeeding decades to sit for private portraits like this one, painted in the mid-1870s.
A talented pianist, she joined the Manet household in 1849 as the family’s music teacher and, in 1863, married Édouard Manet. Baudelaire wrote to a mutual friend that Manet’s new wife was reportedly “beautiful, very kind, and a very great artist.”
1 paź 2024 · In 1863 Manet married Suzanne Leenhoff, a Dutch woman who had given him piano lessons and had given birth to his child before their marriage.
