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Judith Gautier (25 August 1845, Paris – 26 December 1917) was a French poet, translator and historical novelist, the daughter of Théophile Gautier and Ernesta Grisi, sister of the noted singer and ballet dancer Carlotta Grisi. [1] She was married to Catulle Mendès, but soon separated from him and had a brief affair with the composer Richard ...
Judith Gautier est la fille de l'écrivain Théophile Gautier et d'Ernesta Grisi (la sœur de la danseuse Carlotta Grisi). Elle passe sa petite enfance dans une liberté quasi-absolue et sous la surveillance d'une nourrice à sa dévotion, qui ne lui rendent que plus pesant son internement au pensionnat Notre-Dame-de-la-Miséricorde 1.
Judith Gautier, born on August 25, 1845, in Paris, was a French poet, novelist, playwright, and translator who worked with the Chinese and Japanese languages. She was the author of several titles, including Le Dragon impérial, (Alphonse Lemerre, 1869), L’Usurpateur (A. Lacroix et Cie, 1875), and Iskender: Histoire Persane (Armand Colin et ...
A distinguished Sinologist who translated Chinese and Japanese texts, Judith Gautier (1845–1917) was at the center of French literary and artistic circles. She was aware of Sargent at an early stage in his career and wrote important reviews of works that he exhibited at the Salon identifying him as an artist with an absolute sense of his own ...
The American painter John Singer Sargent conveyed evocative personal details with a remarkable economy of brushstrokes in this portrait of his friend Judith Gautier (1845 – 1917). Gautier’s white kimono, which glows in the dimly lit room, may nod to her important translations of Japanese poetry.
Sargent often painted his most experimental works for friends, like Judith Gautier (1845–1917), who were receptive to an unconventional point of view. This small-scale, ravishing study of Gautier standing against a cerulean sky is one of Sargent’s most daring compositions. Here, Sargent concentrates on the effects of light outdoors.
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Barbara Jessome-Nance examines the life and works of Judith Gautier, a French writer who spanned more than fifty years and became a distinguished Orientalist. She argues that Gautier's fiction, poetry and memoirs reveal her own personal style and vision of beauty, rather than imitating her contemporaries.
