1920–25; after Madame Récamier ( def. )
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One particularly potent scene focuses on the 19th Century portrait of the Parisian socialite Juliette Recamier.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2018
Souvenir de Voyage shows a coffin reclining gracefully on an Empire couch, in a grisly parody of Madame Recamier.
From Time Magazine Archive
Outraged, Kouchner and Recamier decided to organize their own pool of doctors who would put medical needs above bureaucratic procedures.
From Time Magazine Archive
As the horror of events in Biafra unfolded, Kouchner became convinced that Recamier was right.
From Time Magazine Archive
Equally famous is his portrait of "Madame Recamier resting on a Chaiselongue."
From A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) by Emerson, Edwin
Portraits were up when I visited — Alexander the Great marching into Babylon; a sly-looking Louis XIV; and Madame Récamier, an 18th century socialite, on her deathbed.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 25, 2023
On one wall hangs a painting, by a high-school friend, of a coffin that has been bent in half and placed atop a chaise longue, in the manner of Magritte’s “Perspective: Madame Récamier by David.”
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 30, 2015
Madame Récamier, accustomed to obtain every thing, would be satisfied with nothing less than the reinstatement of her father.
From Hortense Makers of History Series by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)
In allusion to it, Hortense wrote to Madame Récamier, from Arenemberg, Sept.
From Hortense Makers of History Series by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)
You said yourself that Madame Récamier was horribly expensive, so I left her and went to Jacquelin's—just to save your pocket—— Harry.
From Dolly Reforming Herself A Comedy in Four Acts by Jones, Henry Arthur
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