What 18 People From Iconic Paintings Looked Like in Real Life

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Each artist has their own style and perception of people whose images they decide to transfer to canvas. In this article, we decided to compare the photos of great artists’ muses and artists themselves with the paintings where they were depicted.

Vincent van Gogh

© Self-portrait / Vincent van Gogh / Musée d'Orsay / Wikimedia Commons, © Jacobus Marinus Wilhelmus de Louw / Van Gogh Museum / Wikimedia Commons

Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau

© Madame X (Madame Pierre Gautreau) / John Singer Sargent / Metropolitan Museum of Art / Wikimedia Commons, © Photograph of Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau / Bibliothèque de la Cité de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine / Wikimedia Commons

Paula Modersohn-Becker

© Selbstporträt / Paula Modersohn-Becker / Sammlung Ludwig Roselius / Wikimedia Commons, © Unknown author / Wikimedia Commons

Victorine Meurent, model of Édouard Manet

© Frank Vincentz / Wikimedia Commons, © Album de portraits cartes de visite ayant appartenu à Édouard Manet / Wikimedia Commons

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

© Self-portrait / Pierre-Auguste Renoir / Clark Art Institute / Wikimedia Commons, © RMN-Grand Palais / Patrice Schmidt / Wikimedia Commons

La Goulue, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’s model

© La Goulue arriving at the Moulin Rouge / Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec / Museum of Modern Art / Wikimedia Commons, © Bibliothèque nationale de France / Wikimedia Commons

Anna Bilińska

© Self-Portrait with a Palette / Anna Bilińska-Bohdanowicz / National Museum in Kraków / Wikimedia Commons, © Wojciech Piechowski / Wikimedia Commons

Jane Morris, the Pre-Raphaelite muse

© Dante Gabriel Rossetti / Jane Morris (The Blue Silk Dress) / Society of Antiquaries of London / Wikimedia Commons, © Unknown author / Wikimedia Commons

Édouard Manet

© Self-Portrait with Palette / Édouard Manet / Steven A. Cohen collection / Wikimedia Commons, © Nadar / Wikimedia Commons

Louise Jopling

© Louise Jopling / Wikimedia Commons, © Herbert Rose Barraud / Wikimedia Commons

Adele Bloch-Bauer, model of Gustav Klimt

© Gustav Klimt / Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer / Neue Galerie New York / Wikimedia Commons, © brandstaetter images / Hulton Archive / Getty Images

Egon Schiele

© Self-Portrait with Physalis / Egon Schiele / Leopold Museum / Wikimedia Commons, © Josef Anton Trčka / Wikimedia Commons

Marie Bashkirtseff

© Self-portrait with palette / Marie Bashkirtseff / Musée des Beaux-Arts Jules Chéret / Wikimedia Commons, © Unknown author / Wikimedia Commons

Gustave Courbet

© Le Désespéré / Gustave Courbet / Private collection / Wikimedia Commons, © Nadar / Wikimedia Commons

Henri Rousseau

© Self-portrait of the Artist with a Lamp / Henri Rousseau / Musée Picasso / Wikimedia Commons, © Dornac / Wikimedia Commons

Henri Matisse

© Portrait du peintre / Henri Matisse / Musée Départemental Henri Matisse / Wikipedia, © Carl Van Vechten / Library of Congress / Wikimedia Commons

Edgar Degas

© Edgar Degas / Calouste Gulbenkian Museum / Wikimedia Commons, © Untitled (self-portrait in library) / Edgar Degas / Harvard Art Museum / Wikimedia Commons

Camille Pissarro

© Self-Portrait with Hat / Camille Pissarro / Tate Britain / Wikimedia Commons, © Unknown author / Wikimedia Commons

And here you can find out what the muses of great artists looked like in real life.

Preview photo credit Self-portrait / Vincent van Gogh / Musée d'Orsay / Wikimedia Commons, Jacobus Marinus Wilhelmus de Louw / Van Gogh Museum / Wikimedia Commons

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