Eugène Cyrille Brunet

Brunet studied under Armand Toussaint at the École des beaux-arts.

In October 1861 he married Caroline de Pène,[1] who was painted by Manet about that time.

[2] A mustached head and shoulders of the artist himself appears looking to one side in the left background of Manet's La Musique aux Tuileries (1862).

[4] A sculptor of Classical subjects, Brunet is best known for his sensuous marble statue of the recumbent Messalina, exhibited at the 1884 Salon.

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