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Jeanne Duval ((:ʒan dyˈval)) (c.1820 – 1862) was a Haitian-born actress and dancer of mixed French and black African ancestry. For 20 years, she was the muse of French poet and art critic Charles Baudelaire. They met in 1842, when Duval left Haiti for France, and the two remained together, albeit stormily, for the next two decades. Duval is said to have been the woman whom Baudelaire loved most, in his life,〔(baud1 )〕 after his mother. She was born in Haiti on an unknown date, sometime around 1820. Poems of Baudelaire's which are dedicated to Duval or pay her homage are: ''Le balcon'', ''Parfum exotique'', ''La chevelure'', ''Sed non satiata,'' ''Le serpent qui danse'', and ''Une charogne''. Baudelaire called her "mistress of mistresses" and his "Vénus Noire" ("Black Venus"), and it is believed that, to him, Duval symbolized the dangerous beauty, sexuality, and mystery of a Creole woman in mid-nineteenth century France.〔(Black Venus - Angela Carter )〕 She lived at 6, rue de la Femme-sans-tête (Street of the Headless Woman), near the ''hôtel Pimodan''.〔(Charles Baudelaire - Jeanne Duval )〕 Manet, a friend of Baudelaire, painted Duval in his 1862 painting ''Baudelaire's Mistress, Reclining''. She was, by this time, going blind.〔(Charles Pierre Baudelaire Biography | Encyclopedia of World Biography )〕 Duval may have died of syphilis as early as 1862, five years prior to Baudelaire, who also died of syphilis.〔http://homepages.westminster.org.uk/art_history/Baudelaire.htm〕 Other sources also claim that Duval survived Baudelaire.〔(Span number 37 Yorga Wangi: Abigail Bray )〕 Nadar claimed to have seen Duval, last, in 1870—by this time, she was on crutches, suffering heavily from syphilis.〔https://www.eff.org/Misc/Publications/Bruce_Sterling/Catscan_columns/catscan.12〕 ==Popular culture== Jeanne Duval serves as a main character in Caribbean author Nalo Hopkinson's ''The Salt Roads'', a work of historic fiction,〔(Science Fiction Book Reviews ) 〕 and also in the title story of the collection ''Black Venus'' by Angela Carter. The film ''My Heart Laid Bare'', currently in production at Disruptive Element Films, is about the life of Jeanne Duval.〔(disruptive element films | filmography ) 〕 The noted American conceptual artist Lorraine O'Grady has developed a 16-diptych photo-installation featuring paired images of Charles Baudelaire and Jeanne Duval called ''Flowers of Evil and Good''. Preliminary studies for this installation have already been exhibited in such spaces as the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, the Thomas Erben Gallery, New York, and Galerie Fotohof, Salzburg, Austria.〔()〕 O'Grady has also written extensively about the relationship of Charles and Jeanne in such publications as ''Mousse Magazine''〔()〕 and ''Pétunia: magazine féministe d’art contemporain et de loisirs''.〔()〕 In addition, Jeanne Duval is the inspiration for a song called "Street of Roses" by then-Soviet heavy metal band Aria, on their 1987 album ''Hero of Asphalt''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jeanne Duval」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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