Rosalie Duthé

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Rosalie Duthé
Presumed portrait of Rosalie Duthe, Claude-Jean-Baptiste Hoin (1750–1817)
Presumed portrait of Rosalie Duthe, Claude-Jean-Baptiste Hoin (1750–1817)
Born
Catherine-Rosalie Gerard Duthé

1748
Died1830(1830-00-00) (aged 81–82)
Resting placePère Lachaise Cemetery, Paris
OccupationCourtesan

Catherine-Rosalie Gerard Duthé (1748–1830),

nudes
, many of which still exist in museums and private collections.

Biography

After quitting a French

Duc de Durfort, the Marquis de Genlis, and the young Comte d'Artois, the future Charles X of France.[6] In an incident around 1788, Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, presented Duthé to his 15 year-old son Philippe (later King Louis Philippe I) to "learn some facts of life."[7] When she was later seen in Philippe's royal carriage on the Champs-Élysées, some young aristocrats took offense, as normally only princes rode in royal carriages; they sang a song set to a popular tune using the lyrics "La Duthé a dû téter", roughly translated as "La Duthé must have suckled royally."[7]

In Parisian society, Duthé developed a certain "reputation by adopting the habit of pausing for extended periods of time before speaking."

cultural historian Joanna Pitman has noted that "Rosalie Duthé acquired the dubious honour of becoming the first officially recorded dumb blonde."[2]

Duthé was the supposed author of an

Lamothe-Langon, who had known Duthé personally.[10][page needed
]

Rosalie Duthé died in 1830, probably around the age of 82.[1] She is buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery.[11]

In art

Danloux's Mademoiselle Rosalie Duthé (1792)
Rosalie Duthé by Lié Louis Périn-Salbreux

Duthé was often requested by portrait painters for sittings, including for partial and full nudes.

Museum of Fine Arts, Rheims.[12] Antoine Vestier (1740–1824) painted the nude Portrait of Rosalie Duthé (c. 1780).[13]

Henri-Pierre Danloux (1753–1809) was Duthé's favorite artist, and he recorded some of his sessions with her in his diary.[12] Danloux painted a number of portraits, including Mademoiselle Rosalie Duthé (1792), commissioned by Duthe's friend and banker Jean-Frédéric Perregaux, who is said to have contemplated this image on his death-bed.[12] Claude-Jean-Baptiste Hoin (1750–1817) painted Presumed portrait of Rosalie Duthé (date unknown).

Other painters who made portraits include

Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun painted Portrait of Mademoiselle Rosalie Duthé (1776), but she never took Duthé as a model and the painting is now considered a copy of someone else's portrait.[12]

Notes

  1. ^ Duthe's birth date is given as 1748–1752 in various sources. Duthe's death date is given as 1820, 1830 and 1831 in various sources. The dates of 1748–1830 are used here, as given in the Encyclopedia of Prostitution and Sex Work.[1]: 119 

References

  1. ^
    ISBN 9780313329685
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  2. ^
    ISBN 9781582341200
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  3. ^ a b Victoria Sherrow. Encyclopedia of hair: a cultural history. Page 149
  4. ^ a b Laura Clout (19 Nov 2007). "Blonde women make men less clever". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on April 11, 2016.
  5. ^ Frederic George Stephens (1870). Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum: Division I. Political and personal satires. British Museum. Dept. of Prints and Drawings. p. 131.
  6. ^ Denys Sutton (1968). France in the Eighteenth Century: Royal Academy of Arts, Winter Exhibition, [6 January-3 March] 1968, p. 125
  7. ^ a b Alain Guédé. Monsieur de Saint-George: virtuoso, swordsman, revolutionary, Page 72
  8. OCLC 936144129
    .
  9. ^ Catherine Rosalie Gerard Duthe (1909). Souvenirs de Mlle Duthe de l'opera, 1748–1830. Avec introd. et notes de Paul Ginisty. Paris: L. Michaud. Retrieved September 21, 2016.
  10. ^ William Pettigrew Gibson. Miniatures and illuminations. 1935
  11. ^ DUTHE Rosalie Catherine GERARD dite la (1748-1830). Last accessed April 2012.
  12. ^ a b c d e f g h i Olivier Blanc, Portraits de femmes, artistes et modèles au temps de Marie-Antoinette, Paris, Didier Carpentier, 2006[page needed]
  13. ISBN 0380487772
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