Ellen Andrée

Ellen Andrée
Andrée drinking in the center of Luncheon of the Boating Party by Renoir
Born	1857 Paris
Died	1925
Nationality	French
Known for	model for Manet, Degas and Renoir

Ellen Andrée (1857–1925) was a French model for Edgar Degas and other impressionists in the 1870s living in the Rue de Rocher in Paris.

Life

Andrée was born in 1857 in Paris. She started her work as a model and she has become notable because she appeared in a number of important impressionist paintings. She was an actress in the Naturalist style of theatre where the purpose was to give a near perfect view of real scenes and not to rely on the audience's imagination. She appeared in plays and comedies like those by Sacha Guitry and Georges Courteline and she worked for several decades as an actress but it was the brief period in the 1870s when she was a model for a number of artists but importantly Édouard Manet, Edgar Degas and Pierre-Auguste Renoir that made her name notable. She also appeared in a painting of Rolla by Henri Gervex in 1878 that was based on a poem by Alfred de Musset.

Bibliography

• Jean Sutherland Boggs: Degas. Ausstellungskatalog Paris, Ottawa, New York, Réunion des musées nationaux, Paris 1988, ISBN 2-7118-2146-3.
• Françoise Cachin: Manet. DuMont, Köln 1991 ISBN 3-7701-2791-9
• John Collins: Ellen Andrée in Berk Jiminez: Dictionary of Artists' Models. Fitzroy Dearborn, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-233-8.
• Bernard Denvir: The chronicle of Impressionism. Thames and Hudson, London 1993, ISBN 0-500-23665-8.
• Benoît Noël, Jean Hournon: Parisiana : la capitale des peintres au XIXe siècle. Presses Franciliennes, Paris 2006, ISBN 2-9527214-0-8.
• Theodore Reff: Manet and modern Paris. National Gallery of Art, Washington und University of Chicago Press, Chicago und London 1982, ISBN 0-226-70720-2.
• Maryanne Stevens, Colin B. Bailey, Stephane Guegan: Manet, portraying life, Ausstellungskatalog Toledo Museum of Art und Royal Academy of Arts 2012–13, Royal Academy of Arts, London 2012, ISBN 978-1-907533-52-5.
• Terry W. Strieter: Nineteenth-century European art. Aldwych Press, London 1999, ISBN 0-86172-115-2.
• Adolphe Tabarant: Manet et ses oeuvres. Gallimard, Paris 1947.

External links

• Verzeichnis der Bühnenrollen mit Ellen Andrée (Auswahl)