This little boy in his holiday clothes is Jacques Bizet, Proust’s first “love”.
Translated from French.
This little boy in his holiday clothes is Jacques Bizet, Proust’s first “love”. 🤍
He is the son of the composer Georges Bizet, 🎩🎻 who enjoyed enormous posthumous success thanks to his opera “Carmen”, adapted from Mérimée’s short story… and Geneviève Halévy. 👒
Geneviève Halévy, Bizet’s widow, remarried and became the famous Mme Straus, a prominent socialite whose salon on Boulevard Haussmann was a very popular haunt! She is one of the most obvious models for the Duchess Oriane de Guermantes, ✨ to whom she lends some of her most famous witticisms.
The artist who painted this portrait 🖼️👨🏻🎨 is also the artist behind the most famous portrait ever painted of Geneviève Bizet: he is Jules-Élie Delaunay, a painter born in Nantes.
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