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French violinist (1846– 1877)
Fanny Claus
Fanny Claus (25 July 1846 – 18 April 1877), also known as Fanny Claus-Prins , was a French
violinist .
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[2]
Biography
Fanny Claus was born on 25 July 1846 in
Besançon , France. She studied violin at the
Conservatoire de Paris , where she graduated in 1863. In 1866, she founded the first all-women string quartet musical group, known as Sainte-Cécile quartet.
[2]
[3]
Through her friend
Suzanne Manet , pianist, wife of
Édouard Manet , a French
modernist painter, she met
Pierre -Ernest Prins , a French
painter ,
engraver and
sculptor , whom she married in 1869.
[4] She is represented by Manet in
The Balcony , a
canvas exhibited in 1869.
[4]
She was the mother of Pierre Prins (1870 – 1945), a French
explorer and
colonial administrator .
She died on 18 April 1877 in Paris at the age of 31.
References
^ Bogousslavsky, J. (18 October 2018).
Neurological Disorders in Famous Artists - Part 4 . Basel, Switzerland: Karger Medical and Scientific Publishers. p. 69.
ISBN
978-3-318-06394-3 . Retrieved 16 July 2023 .
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a
b Dolan, Therese (2013).
Manet, Wagner, and the Musical Culture of Their Time . London: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. p. 7.
ISBN
978-1-409-44670-5 . Retrieved 16 July 2023 .
^ Thompson, Theresa (13 February 2013).
"Manet the master of portrait painting" . oxfordmail.co.uk. oxfordmail.co.uk. Retrieved 16 July 2023 .
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a
b Distel, Anne (1974).
Impressionism: A Centenary Exhibition, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, December 12, 1974– February 10, 1975 . New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. p. 120.
ISBN
978-0-870-99097-7 . Retrieved 16 July 2023 .