Mlle Feurgard

Basic Information

Mlle Feurgard was a young painter who joined the women's atelier at Julian in December 1882. Marie introduces her as the intimate friend of Louise Breslau, and it is through her that the Breslau quarrel takes a new turn.

In Marie's Diary

- 16 December 1882 (097.0239): a week after her arrival, Feurgard, told by Marie that Breslau had spoken ill of her, denies it and carries the conversation back to Breslau. Breslau's reply, relayed through Feurgard, is the story that Soutzo, asked by Cartwright whether his marriage to Marie was settled, had said "infamous" things about her. Marie treats it as gossip but records it in full; the manuscript pages that follow were torn out.

- Same entry (097.0245): Marie's portrait of her. Twenty-three and looking nineteen, "très intéressante, douée, intelligente"; her father dead a year, she lives with her mother and two small sisters, one of them fifteen and promising real talent, an hour from Paris. She has the air of a little mother of the family; the household is poor, likeable, interesting.

- 1 March 1884 (103.0420): judging the hanging of the Salon submissions, Marie counts Breslau, herself, Feurgard and a landscape painter named Kellend as the only entries that are not "des horreurs ou peu s'en faut".

Related Entries

- #Louise_Breslau — her intimate friend, Marie's rival
- #Julian — the atelier