Marie Magdeleine Real del Sarte

Marie Magdeleine Real del Sarte or Real del Sarte (1853–1927) was a French painter and model.

Marie Magdeleine Real del Sarte
Portrait of Real del Sarte by her husband
Born	(1853-06-23)June 23, 1853 Paris, France
Died	March 16, 1927(1927-03-16) (aged 73) Paris, France
Nationality	French
Known for	Painting
Spouse	Louis Désiré Réal ​ (m. 1887)​

Real del Sarte was born in Paris as the daughter of François Delsarte, and attended the Académie Julian from 1874 where she was taught by Gustave Boulanger, Tony Robert-Fleury and Jules Lefebvre. She is the blond girl in the middle of Marie Bashkirtseff's 1881 painting In the Studio.^[1] She became a teacher there while still attending classes and married her cousin, the sculptor Louis Désiré Réal on 1 March 1887. After that she began signing her works Real del Sarte. Her son Maxime Real del Sarte became a sculptor. Her painting Do You Want to Model? was one of the works featured in Women Painters of the World by Walter Shaw Sparrow (1905); one of the first books that treated 19th-century female artists as worthy of serious attention.^[2] Her niece Thérèse Geraldy was her pupil.

Sarte died in Paris.

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  Real del Sarte as central figure in the 1881 painting In the Studio, by Marie Bashkirtseff
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  Portrait of her mother in 1890
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  Portrait of her maid, which was on show at the Royal Academy in 1888

External links

• Magdeleine Delsarte at geneanet.org
• Album at Picasaweb

References

1. letter to the paper by Real del Sarte herself
2. Women painters of the world, from the time of Caterina Vigri, 1413-1463, to Rosa Bonheur and the present day, by Walter Shaw Sparrow, The Art and Life Library, Hodder & Stoughton, 27 Paternoster Row, London, 1905

• Cat. nr. 1395 at the Paris Salon 1906
• work discussed at the Paris Salon 1892