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This sumptious fruit salad was painted by Madeleine Jeanne Lemaire (French, 1845-1928)
It’s called “Still life with fruits”. You can really smell those peaches. Yum!
The French writer Marcel Proust frequently visited her popular salon / studio and claimed that she had created more roses than anyone, after God.
Proust also immortalized her as the elegant hostess Madame Verdurin in his novels (movie version: Time Regained). She illustrated his first book of short stories, Pleasures and Days (1896).
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