EVA GONZALèS

'Eva Gonzalès' (April 19, 1849 – May 6, 1883) was a French Impressionist painter.
Like her teacher, Édouard Manet, she never exhibited with the Impressionist painters in their controversial exhibitions in Paris, but she is considered part of the group because of her painting style. She was Manet's only formal student.
She married Henri Guérard and used him and her sister Jeanne Gonzales as the subjects for many of her paintings. Her career was cut short when she died in childbirth at the age of thirty-four, exactly six days after the death of her teacher, Manet.
The painting she is completing in Manet's ''Portrait of Eva Gonzalès'' demonstrates the mastery she had achieved at that age.

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Further reading

★ Marie-Caroline Sainsaulieu, Jacques de Mons: ''Eva Gonzalès: 1849 - 1883; étude critique et catalogue raisonné ''. Paris 1990

★ Marianne Delafond: ''Les femmes impressionnistes: Mary Cassatt, Eva Gonzalès, Berthe Morisot''. Paris 1993 ISBN 2-85047-227-1