Chloe

[sharplittleteeth]

People are doing an Australian meme. One of the questions is have you ever seen Chloe at Young and Jackson's.

Sadly, I never have. Never even been inside Y&J, despite passing it at least once a week.

But I read through the information sheet about the painting on their website, and this delighted me:

A young Parisian artist’s model named Marie was immortalised by Jules Joseph Lefebvre (leferb) as Chloe. Little is known of her, except she was approximately 19 years of age at the time of painting. Roughly two years later, Marie, after throwing a party for friends, boiled a soup of poisonous matches – drank the concoction and died. The reason for her suicide is thought to be unrequited love.

So sad. And yet so bohemian.