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Olympe Pélissier (9 May 1799 – 22 March 1878) was a French artists' model and courtesan and the second wife of the Italian composer Gioachino Rossini. She sat for Vernet for his painting of Judith and Holofernes .
Olympe Pélissier was a French artists' model and courtesan and the second wife of the Italian composer Gioachino Rossini. She sat for Vernet for his painting of Judith and Holofernes. Honoré de Balzac described her as "the most beautiful courtesan in Paris".
Olympe Pélissier (née Olympe Louise Alexandrine Descuilliers 1 à Paris le 9 mai 1799 et morte le 22 mars 1878 à Paris) était le modèle du peintre Horace Vernet.
We look at the ups and downs of the relationship between Giaochino Rossini and his second wife, Parisian courtesan Olympe Pélissier.
Nov 22, 2019 · Horace Vernet, Study of Olympe Pélissier for Judith and Holofernes, 1830. The Petite messe solennelle is the ‘final sin’ of Rossini’s old age, dedicated to Comtesse Louise Pillet-Will, and first heard in the private chapel of her newly built house in Paris on Sunday 14 March 1864.
Mar 2, 2020 · A year after Colban’s death in 1845, Rossini married Olympe Pélissier, the 46-year-old French artists’ model and courtesan whom he had lived with since meeting her in Paris in 1830. He and his second wife lived for varying periods in Bologna, Milan, Florence and Paris, their last and longest home.
The first symptoms of a nervous breakdown became manifest in 1832, which hit him hard; Olympe Pélissier, to whom he was now attached, cared for him like a mother. His married her on 16 August 1846. He published his “Soirées Musicales” – composed between 1830 and 1835 – in 1835, along with other short works.
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