Eugénie (Nini) Pasqué at 19, 1893, after MacMonnies - Limited Edition of 12 Photograph

I went to New York to photograph her in marble in the Brooklyn Museum, that version has the bear skin; the bronze in the Met doesn't but I'd gone specifically for the marble. The bear skin's barbaric opulence, the outrageously exuberant Nini as bacchante, the baby was hers with the sculptor; his wife eventually left, sick of his philandering and Nini's bratty pranks, like going to a masque ball naked but for her mask and Mrs. MacMonnies' Japanese robe. By 1897 Nini married into American wealth and left France and her career as an artists' model (she was quite well known in Paris at the time, it had become common that models would eventually find a prosperous husband smitten with them). The little girl was in the museum that day, delighted and entranced at this joyous dance of wild abandon; her father wanted her to look at something more proper. She was utterly thrilled that this was possible. I've had some photographs of a garden suitable to her frolicking from the Huntington in Pasadena, California, for some years.

Photography:Manipulated on Paper

Artist Produced Limited Edition of:12

Size:23 W x 39 H x 0.1 D in

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