Ensemble de six photographies originales figurant l'intérieur de la villa Pax à Boulouris

Collection of six original photographs showing the interior of the Pax Villa in Boulouris-sur-Mer owned by Jenny Meurlot
Collection of six original photographs, contemporary silver print. All the photographs are mounted on strong boards and show the interior of the Pax Villa in Boulouris-sur-Mer owned by Jenny Meurlot, who also appears on two of them. Some of the photographs are discreetly side-stitched in the margin. Four of the photographs show, on the lower right margin, the engraved signature of the Raphaël studio A. Bandieri.

Jenny (Eugénie) Meurlot was a pupil of Jules Chérét, a close friend of Sarah Bernhardt and Natalie Clifford Barney, but also an ambassador and muse of René Lalique. In her residence, the Pax villa in Boulouris-sur-Mer in Var, she hosts many artists (Mucha, Dufy) and keeps an important collection of works of art. On two of the photographs, we can make out her portrait as Sappho, painted by Jan Styka (1858-1925), currently kept at the Smart Museum of Art in Chicago.

Very beautiful collection, testimony to the elegance of the illustrious home of the artist.