Eva Gonzalès
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Eva Gonzalès (April 19, 1849 – May 6, 1883) was a French impressionist painter.
Like her teacher, Édouard Manet, she never exhibited among the impressionist painters in their controversial exhibitions in Paris during the nineteenth century, but she is considered part of the group because of her painting style. She was his only formal student.
She married Henri Guérard and used him and her sister Jeanne Gonzales as the subjects for many of her paintings. Her career was cut short when she died in childbirth at the age of thirty-four, exactly six days after the death of her teacher, Manet.
The painting she is completing in Manet's Portrait of Eva Gonzalès demonstrates the mastery she had achieved at that age.
