Madeleine Lemaire, née Coll 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.
George Painter stated in his book Marcel Proust she is one of the models of Proust's Madame Verdurin (In Search of Lost Time).
Woman's Building Lemaire poster
Un moment musical - Madeleine Lemaire (1845-1928)
Roses - Madeleine Lemaire (1845-1928).jpg
Ophelia (1880), de Madeleine Lemaire (1845-1928)
La Volupté - Madeleine Lemaire (1845-1928)
Madeleine Lemaire, Phoebe (1896)

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