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[Jeanne WEIL PROUST] NadarBiblio.com
One of the last portraits of Jeanne Weil Proust less than a year before her death
1904réf. Pro4PROUST Jeanne WEIL 1849-1905 5th December 1904 original period film print. Round photography 159 cm diameter mounted on thick paper frame in the photographer's name.Tiny spot on lower margin of the mounting small stainStamp on verso from collection Suzy Mante-Proust collection One of Jeanne Weil Proust's last portraits less than a year before her death This portrait was taken on December 5th 1904. At this time aged 56 years old Proust's mother has been a widow for a year. The translation of his son's The Bible of Amiens was published that same year. She died of nephritis a year later on September 26 1905. Nadar did process her portrait and removed the shadows and various flaws on her face. Michel Schneider notes that the narrator's mother in the Search is obviously inspired by the mother of the author himself. Jeanne Proust was born Jeanne Weil in 1849 from a Jewish family of the enlightened bourgeoisie. Much has been said about the intellectual complicity that united her with elder son. Marcel Proust who during his mother's lifetime wrote only beautifulthings in the spirit of the time Pleasures and Days will not become the novelist of the Search until after the death his mother an event that has somehow freed his creation. In the novel the grief he felt at his death is shifted to that of the grandmother and that of Albertine. In the Search Mom doesn't die she is also mentioned more than 500 times. Provenance: -Proust Family -Suzy Mante-Proust only daughter of Robert Proust by descent -Patricia Mante-Proust granddaughter of Suzy Mante-Proust by descent References: Nadar repr. p. 32 in full. Cattaui n° 59 repr. Mauriac repr. p. 10.
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