Editing Suzanne Valadon (section)

==Model==
[[File:Dance-At-Bougival.jpg|thumb|left|upright|Valadon is depicted dancing in ''[[Dance at Bougival]]'' (1883), by [[Pierre-Auguste Renoir]]]]
Valadon began working as a model in 1880 in Montmartre at age 15.{{sfn |Rose |1999 |p=9}} She modeled for more than ten years for many different artists including [[Berthe Morisot]],<ref>[https://www.larazon.es/cataluna/20200531/vgix77uzxzejloxgzg6lg27f7u.html "Suzanne Valadon, la pintora que dio luz a los posimpresionistas"] (in Spanish), Carlos Sala, ''La Razón'', 31 May 2020, updated 13-10-2021. [Retrieved 18-01-2022].</ref> [[Pierre Puvis de Chavannes|Pierre-Cécile Puvis de Chavannes]], [[Théophile Steinlen]], [[Pierre-Auguste Renoir]], [[Jean-Jacques Henner]], and [[Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec]].{{sfn |Marchesseau |1996 |p=9}} She modeled under the name "Maria" before being nicknamed "Suzanne" by Toulouse-Lautrec, after the biblical story of [[Susanna (Book of Daniel)|Susanna and the Elders]] as he felt that she especially preferred modeling for older artists.{{sfn |Marchesseau |1996 |p=14}}<ref>{{cite web |last1=Drees |first1=Della |title=Valadon and her studio in Montmartre |date=13 March 2016 |url=https://delladrees.com/wordpress/?p=955 |access-date=20 August 2018}}</ref> She was Toulouse-Lautrec's lover for two years, which ended when she attempted suicide in 1888.<ref name="Gimferrer 1990 p. ">{{cite book |last=Gimferrer |first=Pere |title=Toulouse-Lautrec |publisher=Rizzoli |publication-place=New York |year=1990 |isbn=978-0-8478-1276-9 |oclc=22422605 |page=}}{{page needed|date=November 2021}}</ref>{{sfn |Warnod |1981 |p=40}}

Valadon learned and furthered her art by observing the techniques of the artists for whom she posed.{{sfn |Warnod |1981 |p=40}} She was considered a very focused, ambitious, rebellious, determined, self-confident, and passionate woman.{{sfn |Marchesseau |1996 |p=15}} In the early 1890s, she befriended [[Edgar Degas]], who was impressed by her bold line drawings and fine paintings. He purchased her work and encouraged her. She remained one of his closest friends until his death in 1917. Art historian Heather Dawkins believed that Valadon's experience as a model added depth to her own images of nude women, which tended to be less idealized than the representations of women by the male post-impressionists.<ref name="Iskin 2004">{{cite journal |last=Iskin |first=Ruth |title=Review of ''The Nude in French Art and Culture, 1870-1910'' by Heather Dawkins. |journal=Caa.reviews |publisher=College Art Association |date=2004-01-07 |issn=1543-950X |doi=10.3202/caa.reviews.2004.1|doi-access=free }}</ref>

Morisot's 1880 drawing of Valadon as a tightrope walker preceded it, but the most recognizable early image of Valadon is in Renoir's ''[[Dance at Bougival]]'' from 1883, the same year that she posed for ''[[Dance in the City]]''.<ref>{{cite web|last=Smee|first=Sebastian|title=At MFA, dancing the night away in the arms of Renoir|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/theater-art/2012/05/18/mfa-dancing-night-away-arms-renoir/sZJlEIpJMcdGxHvSR2x5EM/story.html|work=The Boston Globe|access-date=10 April 2013}}</ref> In 1885, Renoir painted her portrait again as [[:Image:Pierre-Auguste Renoir - Girl Braiding Her Hair (Suzanne Valadon).jpg|''Girl Braiding Her Hair'']]. Another of his portraits of her in 1885, [[:Image:Pierre-Auguste Renoir - Suzanne Valadon - profile.jpg|''Suzanne Valadon'']], is of her head and shoulders in profile. Valadon frequented the bars and taverns of Paris with her fellow painters and she was Toulouse-Lautrec's subject in his oil painting ''The Hangover''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec|url=http://www.harvardartmuseums.org/art/229060|work=Harvard Art Museums|access-date=20 December 2012}}</ref>