Jeanne Samary

Léontine Pauline Jeanne Samary is a French actress born in 1857 and died in 1890.

She entered to the Conservatoire at the fourteen years age and obtained at eighteen years the first price of comedy.

She began in 1875 with the Comédie-Française in the role from Dorine from the Tartuffe . Member in 1879, it specialized in the roles of maidservant and maidservant of Molière.

She is especially known today because of the dozen portraits that Renoir painted of her enters 1877 and 1880.

Since 1876, one of the first impressionist works, the Swing , has as a model the young actress.

She is also the subject of the Daydream which obtained a certain success with the impressionist exposure of 1877 although it does not seem to have rained with Miss Samary, because not developing sufficiently its social status.

Renoir in 1879 presents a supposed portrait to satisfy its model more, in foot and behavior of ball. But the portrait, less quite exposed than that of Sarah Bernhardt, met less success and Miss Samary would have been annoyed by it.

After three years of collaboration, Jeanne Samary preferred in Renoir of the painters of the academic school who, according to it, were more likely to develop it.

Little before its death it writes a charming book for the children, the Delicacies of Charlotte , magistralement illustrated by Job.

She dies brutally in 1890.

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