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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.jpg "The Dining Room at Offranville 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 "Second Study for a Portrait of Madame Henri Germain by Jacques-Emile Blanche")
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.jpg "Portrait of Marie Blanche Vasnier (detail) 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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_(oil_on_card)_-_(MeisterDrucke-583001).jpg "Study for a Portrait of Paul Morand (1888-1976) by Jacques-Emile Blanche")
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_Painting_by_Jacques_Emile_(Jac_-_(MeisterDrucke-982672).jpg "Study for the Portrait of Paul Morand by Jacques-Emile Blanche")
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.jpg "Portrait of René Crevel 1900-1935, 1928 by Jacques-Emile Blanche")
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.jpg "Seated Girl with Hat on Chair with Basket on Lap (series title: The Child with the Basket) by Jacques-Emile Blanche")
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.jpg "Nijinsky in Les Orientales by Jacques-Emile Blanche")
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_French_poet_Painting_by_Jacques_Emile_(Jacques_-_(MeisterDrucke-970066).jpg "Portrait of Max Jacob by Jacques-Emile Blanche")
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 1924 - (MeisterDrucke-125088).jpg "Study for the Portrait of Andre Maurois 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 "Portrait of Mabel Dodge Luhan at the Villa Curonia near Florence, 1911 by Jacques-Emile Blanche")
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.jpg "Portrait of Madame Adelaide Vasnier 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 "Daniel, Marianne, Francois and Leon Halevy 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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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1321198).jpg "Study for the Portrait of Countess Anna Elisabeth de Noailles by Jacques-Emile Blanche")
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.jpg "Portrait of Madame Vasnier by Jacques-Emile Blanche")
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.jpg "Evening, Westminster from Waterloo Bridge by Jacques-Emile Blanche")
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.jpg "Portrait Study, 1903-1904 by Jacques-Emile Blanche")
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.jpg "Jean Cocteau, Poet by Jacques-Emile Blanche")
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.jpg "Portrait of Paul Claudel by Jacques-Emile Blanche")
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_and_his_friends_from_La_-_(MeisterDrucke-943217).jpg "Study for the portrait of Stephane Mallarme (1842-1898) and his friends from La Revue Independante. Painting by Jacques Emile Blanche (1861-1942) by Jacques-Emile Blanche")
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.jpg "Portrait of Paul Valery by Jacques-Emile Blanche")
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.jpg "Bouquet of Hydrangeas, 1929 by Jacques-Emile Blanche")
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.jpg "Study of a Young Girl by Jacques-Emile Blanche")
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_Painting_by_Jacqu_-_(MeisterDrucke-964272).jpg "Study for the Portrait of Raymond Radiguet (1903-1923) by Jacques-Emile Blanche")
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.jpg "Study for the Portrait of Raymond Radiguet by Jacques-Emile Blanche")
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.jpg "Portrait of the Pianist Léontine Bordes-Pène by Jacques-Emile Blanche")
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 and his Friends at the Cafe Maure of the Exposition Universelle of 1900 1901 - (MeisterDrucke-134112).jpg "Andre Gide and his Friends at the Cafe Maure of the Exposition Universelle of 1900 by Jacques-Emile Blanche")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-960777).jpg "Tangerin: A mother and her two children by Jacques-Emile Blanche")
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.jpg "Portrait of the Pianist and Composer Francis Poulenc by Jacques-Emile Blanche")
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.jpg "Young Girl with Hortensias 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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_French_composer_-_(MeisterDrucke-971224).jpg "Portrait of Francis Poulenc (1899-1963), French composer by Jacques-Emile Blanche")
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.jpg "Portrait of Ignacio Zuloaga y Zabaleta 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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 1912 - (MeisterDrucke-135400).jpg "Study for a Portrait of Jean Cocteau by Jacques-Emile Blanche")
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.jpg "Portrait of a Woman by Jacques-Emile Blanche")
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.jpg "Portrait of a Young Girl Seated in a Landscape by Jacques-Emile Blanche")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1098490).jpg "Elegant Figures at the Franco-British Exhibition of 1902 by Jacques-Emile Blanche")
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.jpg "Portrait of a Woman by Jacques-Emile Blanche")
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 c1887 - (MeisterDrucke-191505).jpg "Portrait of Gabriel Faure (1845-1924) c.1887 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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_Painting_by_Jacques_Emile_-_(MeisterDrucke-964271).jpg "Study for the Portrait of Francois Mauriac (1885-1970) by Jacques-Emile Blanche")
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 at his Piano - (MeisterDrucke-197168).jpg "Claude Achille Debussy at His Piano by Jacques-Emile Blanche")
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.jpg "Portrait of Marcel Proust by Jacques-Emile Blanche")
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