{"id":598,"date":"2016-10-28T21:39:26","date_gmt":"2016-10-28T21:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/exhibitions.fitnyc.edu\/prousts-muse\/?p=598"},"modified":"2016-10-28T21:43:50","modified_gmt":"2016-10-28T21:43:50","slug":"photographs-of-the-countess-greffulhe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exhibitions.fitnyc.edu\/prousts-muse\/photographs-of-the-countess-greffulhe\/","title":{"rendered":"Photographs of the Countess Greffulhe"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In this photograph by Paul Nadar, the Countess Greffulhe wears her famous Lily Dress, attributed to the House of Worth, 1896. She studied photography with Nadar and collaborated with him on at least two versions of this photograph, posing in front of a full-length mirror. Long a symbol of female vanity, the mirror can also be compared to a photograph. As Robert de Montesquiou once said, \u201cA photograph is a mirror that remembers.\u201d<\/p>\n
Photograph by Paul Nadar.
\nPalais Galleria, Mus\u00e9e de la Mode de la Ville de Paris.
\u00a9 Eric Emo\/Galliera\/Roger-Viollet.\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The Countess \u00c9lisabeth Greffulhe in a ballgown, circa 1887.<\/p>\n

Exposed to the crowd at the opera, the Countess Greffulhe experienced a feeling of triumph. As she once wrote to Robert de Montesquiou, \u201cI don\u2019t think that there is any pleasure in the world comparable to that of a woman who feels that she is being looked at by everybody. . . . How can one live when one can no longer provoke this great anonymous caress, after having known and tasted it?\u201d Photography was another way of presenting herself to the gaze of others.<\/p>\n

Photograph by Otto Wegener.
\nPalais Galliera, Mus\u00e9e de la mode de la Ville de Paris.
\u00a9 Otto\/Galliera\/Roger-Viollet.
\u00a9 Eric Emo\/Galliera\/Roger-Viollet.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The Countess Greffulhe wearing an evening coat, circa 1887.<\/p>\n

In this photograph, The Countess Greffulhe poses almost completely concealed by a voluminous evening cape, perhaps the same chinchilla cape that she loaned to Robert de Montesquiou for his portrait by Whistler. She later complained that the cape was never returned by his companion, Yturri.<\/p>\n

Photograph by Otto Wegener.
\nPalais Galleria, Mus\u00e9e de la Mode de la Ville de Paris.
\n\u00a9 Otto\/Galliera\/Roger-Viollet.<\/div>\n
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\"palais-galliera-logos-sm\"<\/a><\/br><\/br>This exhibition was developed by the Palais Galliera, Fashion Museum of the City of Paris, Paris Mus\u00e9es.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Proust\u2019s Muse, The Countess Greffulhe<\/em> runs through January 7, 2016 at The Museum at FIT<\/strong><\/a> in NYC.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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