 Isabelle Lemonnier was the younger sister of Mme.Georges Charpentier, wife of the highly successful publisher Georges Charpentier. He launched the illustrated weekly La Vie moderne, and in its rooms hled one man shows of Renoir, Monet, and Manet.
Manet was entranced by Isabelle, sending her, during his summer stay at Bellevue in 1880, a sequence of charming, witty flirtatious letters often accompanied by watercolor sketches. She rarely, if ever replied and was equally cavalier about her portraits.
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