Jacques Emile Blanche was the youngest of four children in a highly respected French family of doctors. His father Emile Blanche, like his grandfather, was a psychiatrist. Their famous clinic up in Montmartre was reserved for a very select clientele. The Blanche family themselves also lived on the premises of the clinic and maintained contact with the patients. As Jacques Emile's older siblings died very early, his parents cared for him all the more, as they feared they too could lose him. So he grew up as an only child and was never left out of his mother's sight. Blanche therefore did not grow up like a normal boy with playmates. His mother regularly took him to her Sunday salons, where she met and exchanged ideas with famous artists and great minds of her time. Thus the boy made his first acquaintances with Edgar Degas, Henri Fantin-Latour and listened attentively to the adult conversations. His education was therefore very unusual in this sense. He received an organized, classical school education for the first time at the age of 12. His artistic education also began at this age. His parents hired Edmond Maître as an art teacher. Maître is said to have later introduced Blanche to Claude Monet, whom he deeply admired. Maître also laid the foundation for Blanche's remarkable art collection. He convinced him to acquire his first works from Monet and Cézanne.
At the age of 18, Blanche met Pierre-Auguste Renoir, whom his mother had commissioned to paint some decorative panels in her new house. A little to the horror of his mother, Blanche became friends with the older Renoir and wished to be allowed to apprentice with him. His mother, however, found the Impressionists too "ordinary" and not academic enough for her son's education. She sent him instead to Henri Gevex, a good friend of the family. The 1880s were very important for Blanche's career and he described this year as his happiest. His first painting for the Paris Salon, "Young Woman on the Deck of a Boat" was accepted at this time. Blanche travelled regularly between Paris and London, his second home. Although Blanche received some lessons in his youth, he was considered more of an autodidact and was a real all-rounder. He was not only a talented painter but also a great writer. He later took some teaching posts and became from 1902 the director of the Académie de la Palette. Although Blanche also painted some still lifes and landscape scenes, he received the greatest recognition as a portraitist. Aristocrats, the moneyed aristocracy and artist colleagues enjoyed sitting for him as models.
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_and_Florence_Halev_-_(MeisterDrucke-946058).jpg "Mrs. Ludovic Halevy, her son Elie Halevy and Florence Halevy by Jacques-Emile Blanche")
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_1911_-_(MeisterDrucke-130372).jpg "Study for a portrait of Henri Bergson, 1911 by Jacques-Emile Blanche")
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.jpg "Portrait of Jules Chéret 1836-1933 in his studio, 1892 by Jacques-Emile Blanche")
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.jpg "Portrait of Mrs Emily Montgomery-Lang, 1911 by Jacques-Emile Blanche")
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.jpg "Anna, Countess of Noailles, 1912 by Jacques-Emile Blanche")
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.jpg "Portrait of Mabel Dodge Luhan at the Villa Curonia near Florence, 1911 by Jacques-Emile Blanche")
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_(oi_-_(MeisterDrucke-1171109).jpg "Portrait of Daisy Fellowes, née Marguerite Decazes de Glücksbierg (1890-1962) by Jacques-Emile Blanche")
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.jpg "Second Study for a Portrait of Madame Henri Germain by Jacques-Emile Blanche")
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.jpg "Portrait of Jean Cocteau 1889-1963, 1912 by Jacques-Emile Blanche")
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_(pastel)_-_(MeisterDrucke-1122106).jpg "Georges de Porto-Riche (1849-1930) by Jacques-Emile Blanche")
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.jpg "Portrait of Paul Claudel by Jacques-Emile Blanche")
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.jpg "Ida Rubinstein as Zobeide in the Ballet Sheherazade by Nicholas Rimsky Korsakov by Jacques-Emile Blanche")
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_Painting_by_-_(MeisterDrucke-982668).jpg "Portrait of Don Rafael de Ochoa y Madrazo by Jacques-Emile Blanche")
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.jpg "Roses in a Vase by Jacques-Emile Blanche")
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.jpg "Portrait of Colette by Jacques-Emile Blanche")
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_French_writ_-_(MeisterDrucke-951069).jpg "Study for the portrait of Emile Herzog dit Andre Maurois (1885-1967), French writer by Jacques-Emile Blanche")
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.jpg "Virginia Oldoini, Countess of Castiglione, Memory of 1893 by Jacques-Emile Blanche")
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_(1882-1971)_composer_Painting_b_-_(MeisterDrucke-999936).jpg "Portrait of Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) composer by Jacques-Emile Blanche")
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_in_ballet_Fire_Bird_composed_by_Igor_-_(MeisterDrucke-948280).jpg "Russian dancer Tamara Karsavina in ballet")
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_(oil_on_card)_-_(MeisterDrucke-583001).jpg "Study for a Portrait of Paul Morand (1888-1976) by Jacques-Emile Blanche")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1665839).jpg "Stephane Mallarme, Poet by Jacques-Emile Blanche")
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.jpg "Joseph-Philippe-Francois de Riquet, Prince de Caraman-Chimay by Jacques-Emile Blanche")
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_Painting_by_Jacqu_-_(MeisterDrucke-999960).jpg "Portrait of the French writer Henri de Montherlant (1896-1972) by Jacques-Emile Blanche")
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_(ink_on_paper)_-_(MeisterDrucke-1422922).jpg "Portrait of the French Writer Paul Ambroise Valery (1871-1945) by Jacques-Emile Blanche")
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_French_writer_Painting_by_Ja_-_(MeisterDrucke-998901).jpg "Portrait of Marcel Proust (detail) by Jacques-Emile Blanche")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1562378).jpg "Hydrangeas (Great Heat) by Jacques-Emile Blanche")
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.jpg "Portrait of Madame Adelaide Vasnier by Jacques-Emile Blanche")
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.jpg "Portrait Study, 1903-1904 by Jacques-Emile Blanche")
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_French_writer_Painting_by_-_(MeisterDrucke-1029863).jpg "Study for the portrait of Francois Mauriac by Jacques-Emile Blanche")
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.jpg "Portrait of a Lady, 1889 by Jacques-Emile Blanche")
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 at Offranville 1912 - (MeisterDrucke-132562).jpg "Study for a Full Length Portrait of Jean Cocteau at Offranville by Jacques-Emile Blanche")
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.jpg "Gilda Darthy by Jacques-Emile Blanche")
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 and his Friends from La Revue Independante 1889 - (MeisterDrucke-121943).jpg "Study for a Portrait of Stephane Mallarme and his Friends from")
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_French_writer_Painting_by_-_(MeisterDrucke-1322581).jpg "Study for the Portrait of François Mauriac, French Writer by Jacques-Emile Blanche")
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 1921 - (MeisterDrucke-122686).jpg "Portrait of Max Jacob by Jacques-Emile Blanche")
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.jpg "Jules Chéret by Jacques-Emile Blanche")
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.jpg "Portrait of the Pianist Léontine Bordes-Pène by Jacques-Emile Blanche")
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.jpg "Portrait of the Ballet Dancer Tamara Karsavina by Jacques-Emile Blanche")
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.jpg "Popular Demonstration in Paris in 1938 by Jacques-Emile Blanche")
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_wife_of_writer_Elie_-_(MeisterDrucke-1066990).jpg "Portrait of Florence Halevy by Jacques-Emile Blanche")
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_1923_-_(MeisterDrucke-120915).jpg "Portrait of Henry de Montherlant by Jacques-Emile Blanche")
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_Blanche_(1861-1942)_French_painter_Pai_-_(MeisterDrucke-1002881).jpg "Portrait of Jacques Emile Blanche, French painter. Painting by John Singer Sargent. Rouen, Museum of Fine Arts by Jacques-Emile Blanche")
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.jpg "Henry Bernstein and His Brother and Sister, 1892 by Jacques-Emile Blanche")
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_French_writer_Painting_by_Jacques_Emile_(J_-_(MeisterDrucke-998900).jpg "Portrait of Marcel Proust by Jacques-Emile Blanche")
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.jpg "Chrysanthemums in a Vase by Jacques-Emile Blanche")
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_1938_-_(MeisterDrucke-585201).jpg "Julien Cain by Jacques-Emile Blanche")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1321198).jpg "Study for the Portrait of Countess Anna Elisabeth de Noailles by Jacques-Emile Blanche")
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.jpg "Nijinsky in Les Orientales by Jacques-Emile Blanche")
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_Painting_by_Jacqu_-_(MeisterDrucke-942985).jpg "Study for the portrait of Pierre Drieu La Rochelle by Jacques-Emile Blanche")
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