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Olympe Pélissier (9 May 1799 – 22 March 1878) was a French artists' model and courtesan and the second wife of the Italian composer Gioachino Rossini. She sat for Vernet for his painting of Judith and Holofernes .
Olympe Pélissier was a French artists' model and courtesan and the second wife of the Italian composer Gioachino Rossini. She sat for Vernet for his painting of Judith and Holofernes. Honoré de Balzac described her as "the most beautiful courtesan in Paris".
Olympe Pélissier (née Olympe Louise Alexandrine Descuilliers [1] à Paris le 9 mai 1799 et morte le 22 mars 1878 à Paris) était le modèle du peintre Horace Vernet.
Nov 22, 2019 · Horace Vernet, Study of Olympe Pélissier for Judith and Holofernes, 1830. The Petite messe solennelle is the ‘final sin’ of Rossini’s old age, dedicated to Comtesse Louise Pillet-Will, and first heard in the private chapel of her newly built house in Paris on Sunday 14 March 1864.
The first symptoms of a nervous breakdown became manifest in 1832, which hit him hard; Olympe Pélissier, to whom he was now attached, cared for him like a mother. His married her on 16 August 1846. He published his “Soirées Musicales” – composed between 1830 and 1835 – in 1835, along with other short works.
The soirees continued, and Olympe Pélissier went on masterminding his life with her usual rigour. Rossini’s last official offering came in 1868, when King Victor Emanuel II nominated him for the Grand Knight of the Order of the Crown of Italy.
Olympe Pélissier had taken an apartment in Paris’s quartier Montmartre, to which only their closest friends were admitted: Count Frederic Fillet-Will, Baron Lionel de Rothschild, Daniel Auber, Michele Carafa, and Francesco Sampieri.
