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Stéphane Mallarmé and Paule Gobillard in front of "Young Woman in a Garden" by Manet
Edgar Degas French
Not on view
Degas and Mallarmé became increasingly close in the 1880s and 1890s. Following the deaths of Eugène Manet and Berthe Morisot in the 1890s, the two friends looked out for the couple’s daughter, Julie, who lived with her cousins the Gobillard sisters, also orphaned. When Degas took up photography in 1895, members of this circle became frequent subjects. Here, Mallarmé sits with the eldest daughter of Yves Gobillard, whose portrait Degas had made years earlier. Behind them hangs a painting that Julie Manet’s parents had acquired at her uncle’s estate sale.
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