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The salon d'honneur: the central hall of the Salon at the Palais de l'Industrie. ↩
Louise Abbema (1853–1927), French painter, known for her portraits of her close friend Sarah Bernhardt. ↩
La Citoyenne: the feminist newspaper founded by Hubertine Auclert in 1881. Marie had invested in it earlier in the diary and was committed to publishing her Salon review there. ↩
Jules Bastien-Lepage (1848–1884): French painter of peasant scenes in a naturalist style, enormously fashionable in 1881. ↩
Albert Wolff (1835–1891), art critic of Le Figaro. Both pictures are by Jules Bastien-Lepage, who painted the portrait of Wolff and Le Mendiant (The Beggar) in 1881 (en.wikipedia «Jules Bastien-Lepage»). ↩
Carolus-Duran (1837–1917): fashionable French portrait painter, celebrated for his fluent technique and his attractive subjects. He was also a renowned teacher, and John Singer Sargent was his most famous pupil. ↩
Léon Bonnat (1833–1922): one of the most celebrated French academic portrait painters of the era. ↩