Madeleine Jeanne Lemaire

Place: Les Arcs

Born: 1845

Death: 1928

Biography:

Madeleine Lemaire, née Coll (1845 – 8 April 1928) was a French painter specialized in elegant genre works, and flowers. Robert de Montesquiou said she was The Empress of the Roses. She introduced Marcel Proust and Reynaldo Hahn to the Parisian salons of the aristocracy. She herself held a salon where she received high society in her hôtel particuli...