Sarah Purser

Overview

Sarah Purser (1848-1943), Irish painter, a pupil at the Académie Julian in 1878-79 (Wikipedia, «Sarah Purser»), and later a leading figure of Irish art. Mon Journal indexes: «Purser (Sarah), élève à l'atelier Julian : 255, 260-261» (t.12), «Purser (Sarah) élève atelier Julian : 116, 149» (t.13), «Purser (Sarah) : 266» (t.14). In the diary she is «Sarah».

Relevance to Marie

• April 1879: she shares a small flat at Les Ternes with Louise Breslau, «Maria l'Italienne» and Schaeppi, and tries to reconcile Marie with Breslau (084.0605, 084.0606); the antechamber scene with the orange (084.0674-0692).
• November 1879: second in Julian's medal competition, behind Amélie (086.0477).
• December 1881: «Sarah Purser, peintre et philosophe avec laquelle on a des discussions à perte de vue sur le Kantisme etc. etc. sur la vie, sur le moi et sur la mort» (094.0091).

References in Diary

084.0605, 084.0606, 084.0674, 084.0678, 084.0679, 084.0692; 086.0477; 094.0091 (the 1879 paragraphs are tagged SARAH; to be merged here).

Not Sarah Bernhardt

The retired file SARAH, merged here on 2026-10-22, had been used for two women. Bojidar's «c'est l'amour pour Sarah qui l'aura repris» (101.0221; Mon Journal t.16 index «Bernhardt (Rosine, dite Sarah) : 22») is #Sarah Bernhardt and was retagged before the merge. «Mme Cartwright que j'ai connue par Sarah un jour qu'elle est venue à l'atelier» (091.0491, April 1881) is left untagged: the t.14 index files that page (p.117) under Bernhardt and Sarah Purser only at p.266, but the text alone does not settle it.