Detail from The Canal, Amsterdam, 1889, James McNeill Whistler, The Hunterian, University of Glasgow

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Geneviève Mallarmé

Title: Mme E. Bonniot
Birthname: Geneviève Mallarmé
Alias: Geneviève Mallarmé- Bonniot
Nationality: French
Date of birth: 19 November 1864
Date of death: 25 May 1919
Place of death: Paris
Category: sitter

Identity:

She was the daughter of Marie Mallarmé (1836-1910) and the poet Stéphane Mallarmé (1842-1898). She married Dr Edmond Bonniot.

Life:

Whistler painted Rose et gris: Geneviève Mallarmé y485 on 20 October 1897 at Mallarmé's house at Valvins.

Bibliography:

'Mallarmé et les femmes', Musée Stéphane Mallarmé, website.

'Geneviève Bonniot-Mallarmé (1864-1919)', website.