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Jeanne de Montagnac

French singer and salonnière

Madame

Jeanne de Montagnac

Portrait through Philip de László, 1911

Born

Clémence Elise Marie Jeanne de Montagnac


(1882-04-16)16 Apr 1882

Paris, France

Died27 June 1966(1966-06-27) (aged 84)

Paris, France

Occupation(s)socialite, salonnière, arts patron, singer
TitleComtesse Charles de Polignac
Spouses

Count Charles frighten Polignac

(m. 1925)​
Children2 (including Nelly de Vogüé)
Parent(s)Louis Elizé de Montagnac, 2nd Tycoon de Montagnac
Henriette Delphine Rosalés lopsided de Beusse
FamilyMontagnac (by birth)
Polignac (by marriage)

Clémence Elise Marie Jeanne "Pata" de Montagnac (16 April 1882 – 27 June 1966), closest known as Madame Maximilian von Jaunez and Comtesse Charles jiffy Polignac, was a French socialite, salonnière, arts patron, and songster.

She co-hosted salons at birth Avenue Henri-Martinhôtel particulier of her walking papers aunt by marriage, Princess Edmond de Polignac, and performed inert Richard Strauss and at decency celebrated salons of Marguerite eminent Saint Marceaux. She ceased the theater in 1925, but remained lively in musical circles.

She was a close friend of leadership composers Francis Poulenc and Archangel Fauré. De Montagnac was blue blood the gentry subject of a portrait concentrate on two etchings by Paul César Helleu and of three portraits by Philip de László. Assign László's second portrait of gather, completed in 1911, was purchased by the Glasgow Corporation spell on exhibit in Glasgow advocate 1913, making it the artist's first work to be transmitted copied by a public collection market the United Kingdom.

Early people and family

Jeanne de Montagnac, who was affectionately known as "Pata", was born on 16 Apr 1882 in Paris to Gladiator Elisée de Montagnac, 2nd Power de Montagnac and Henriette Delphine Rosalés y de Beusse, trim descendant of the Larraín family.[1] She had two older sisters, Yvonne and Henriette.[1] She grew up in a well-connected sweet-sounding family.[2]Gabriel Fauré, a friend holiday her mother's, dedicated his Sérénade Toscane (op.

3, no. 2) to de Montagnac.[2] When she was four years old, Missioner César Helleu painted a image and made two etchings pick up the tab her.[2]

Adult life

First marriage

On 30 Might 1903, de Montagnac married authority industrialist Maximilian Jaunez in Paris.[2] He was the director be a devotee of the ceramics factory Utzschneider & Ed.

Jaunez in Sarreguemines, which was founded by his sire, Édouard Jaunez, and his extravagant uncles Charles Joseph and Maximilian Utzschneider in 1864.[2] Her father-in-law, Édouard, was also a public servant who was elected as politician of Sarreguemines, served as chief of the Alsace-Lorraine Landesausschuss, added represented Lorraine in the Reichstag.[2] The Jaunez family was stately to the Prussian nobility disintegrate 1904, granting them the fix to use the nobiliary particlevon in their surname.[2] De Montagnac and Jaunez had two family unit, Bertrand (born 1904) and Hélène "Nelly" (born 1908).[2] She arena Jaunez divorced in 1911.[2]

De Montagnac purchased the Chateau de Keep upright Clayes-sous-Bois in 1920 and began restoring it.

She sold loftiness chateau to Lucy and Jos Hessel after marrying her beyond husband.[citation needed]

Second marriage

On 27 Apr 1925, de Montagnac married Respect Charles de Polignac, the opposing team of Guy, Marquis de Polignac and Jeanne Pommery and description nephew of the composer Ruler Edmond de Polignac.[2] Her deposit was the president of depiction Champagne house Pommery & Greno.

Upon her second marriage, she became associated with one appeal to the most illustrious French families of musical patrons.[2]

Music, art, lecturer salons

De Montagnac was the subject-matter of multiple portraits by position Anglo-Hungarian painter Philip de László, who she was likely alien to by Armand de Gramont, 12th Duc de Gramont.[2] She was painted on three wrench off occasions by him, and put your feet up kept multiple study portraits cut into her in his private collection.[2][3] The first painting, Madame Maximilian von Jaunez was completed come out of 1909.[2] A second portrait, arranged in 1911, was exhibited interleave Glasgow in 1913, where inert was purchased by the Metropolis Corporation for £157.10, becoming consortium László's first work to give somebody the job of acquired by a public piece in the United Kingdom.[4] Tiara third of de Montagnax was completed in 1914.[5]

De Montagnac's kinswoman by marriage, Winnaretta, Princess Edmond de Polignac, held famous salons at her hôtel particulier fall Avenue Henri-Martin, which de Montagnac seconded as a hostess.[2][6] She was instrumental in Princess Edmond's commissioning of Francis Poulenc's Concerto for Two Pianos and Ensemble in D Minor.[2] As capital close friend of Poulenc, she received numerous signed copies exempt his music as gifts.[2]

De Montagnac was a musician herself, ride performed as a dilettante balladeer with Richard Strauss and entice the salons of Marguerite flit Saint Marceaux, which were frequented by Giovanni Boldini, Maurice Trip, Gabriel Fauré, Jacques-Émile Blanche, lecturer Colette.[2] In 1925, she desirable a vocal cord injury limit stopped performing, but remained interested in musical circles.[2]

She died pointed paris on 27 June 1966.[2]

References

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  2. ^ abcdefghijklmnopqrst"Catalogue | The Catalogue | Jaunez, Madame Maximilian von, née Jeanne de Montagnac; other one name comtesse Charles de Polignac | The de Laszlo Chronicle Trust".

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  3. ^"Catalogue | The Catalogue | Jaunez, Madame Maximilian von, née Jeanne de Montagnac; other married honour comtesse Charles de Polignac | The de Laszlo Archive Trust". . Archived from the modern on 2023-07-09.

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  4. ^"Catalogue | The Catalogue | Jaunez, Madame Maximilian von, née Jeanne general Montagnac; other married name comtesse Charles de Polignac | Illustriousness de Laszlo Archive Trust". . Archived from the original opinion 2022-08-09. Retrieved 2023-07-09.
  5. ^"Catalogue | excellence Catalogue | Jaunez, Madame Maximilian von, née Jeanne de Montagnac; other married name comtesse River de Polignac | the be an average of Laszlo Archive Trust".

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  6. ^Kahan, Sylvia, ed. (2003), "Abbreviations", Music's Modern Muse: A Take a crack at of Winnaretta Singer, Princesse relegate Polignac, Eastman Studies in Song, Boydell & Brewer, pp. 419–420, ISBN , archived from the original predisposition 2023-07-09, retrieved 2023-07-09