HIDDEN IN THE SHADOW OF THE MASTER:
The Model- Wives
of Cézanne,
Monet, and Rodin.
By Ruth Butler.
Yale Univ. Press.
354 pp. $35
Hidden in the Shadow of the Master is Ruth Butler’s masterfully researched examination of the lives of Hortense Fiquet, Camille Doncieux, and Rose Beuret, the three women who mod eled for, bore sons to, lived in poverty with, and eventually married three of the towering artistic geniuses of their time: Paul Cézanne, Claude Monet, and Auguste Rodin, respec tively. All were ordinary girls plucked from the streets of Paris by their future husbands, hand picked, apparently, with an eye toward muse dom. Though they figure prominently in their husbands’ paintings and sculptures, beyond these evocations of their changing expressions, modes of dress, settings, and periods of life, little of substance was known about any of them before now.
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