Fascinating Article

Via NyTimes: Ruth Butler recently wrote this incredible book about how world-renouned artists like Cezanne, Rodin and Monet would pick up models on the streets of Paris, who they would later marry, and use as muses for the majority of their artwork. "The artists used the same model - often a wife or lover - over and over and over again in different paintings and in different scenes."

The piece above, "La Japonaise," Claude Monet did in 1876 of his wife, Camille. Butler recalls, "Monet and Camille were a wonderful working couple. She just loved to pose."