Marie Bashkirtseff - I'm continuing on with her diary. She's been proposed to at 15, but the man's family wouldn't approve because she was Russian Orthodox and the guy was Catholic. I put this painting on my monitor as the backdrop about a week ago. This was painted about the same time that Fanny Stevenson and her daughter were here taking art classes. Paris and New York were the only cities in the world where women could get art instruction. Of course everyone wanted to be in Paris. Fanny met Robert Louis in the summer at Grez outside of Paris. Marie had an excellent singing voice and wanted to be a singer until TB did in her voice. She wrote volumes. She tried to record every day of her life.
Every one in the world was copying this man:
Jean-Francois Millet
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