Madeleine Deslandes

Baronne Madeleine Annette Edmé Angélique Vivier-Deslandes (16 April 1866 – 2 March 1929) was a French writer associated with the English Pre-Raphaelites. She was the subject of a painting by Edward Burne-Jones.[1]

Madeleine Deslandes
Portrait of Madeleine Deslandesby Edward Burne-Jones
Portrait of Madeleine Deslandes
by Edward Burne-Jones
Born16 April 1866
Montluçon, France
Died2 March 1929
Paris, France
Pen nameOssit
Notable worksA quoi bon? (1892)
Ilse (1894)
Cyrène (1908).

Deslandes travelled to England in 1893 to meet Burne-Jones in preparation for an article that she was writing about him for Le Figaro. It was arranged that Burne-Jones would paint Deslandes' portrait, which he did in 1895–96.[2]

Deslandes wrote under the pseudonym "Ossit". She wrote four novels : A quoi bon? (1892), Ilse (1894), Il n'y a plus d'îles bienheureuses (1898) and Cyrène (1908).

According to Emily Wubben, Deslandes "pursued a glittering social life in Parisian literary and artistic circles. She was celebrated as a hostess of a cultured salon that attracted the presence of renowned artists, poets and composers."[3] She once entered a lion's cage at a fair and recited poetry by Jean Richepin.[4]

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