Fernande Olivier in exchange for a promise not to publish anything further about their relationship as long as either of the two was alive. She died in 1966, he in 1973. Her importance is based not only on the memoirs, which were finally published in their entirety in 1988, but on the fact that she was the only one of Picasso's mistresses who knew him before he achieved fame and fortune. Paul Léautaud describes her in his "Journal". Guillaume Apollinaire also had a love affair with her. Fernande Olivier Fernande Olivier (born Amélie Lang; 6 June 1881 – 26 January 1966) was
The Artist in His Museum The Artist in His Museum The Artist in His Museum is an 1822 self-portrait by the American painter Charles Willson Peale (1741–1827). It depicts the 81-year-old artist posed in Peale's Museum, then occupying the second floor of Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The nearly life-size painting is in the collection of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Toward the end of his career, beginning in 1822, he painted seven self-portraits that together formed the final motif of his art and the final flourishing of his talent. "The Artist in His Museum" is a large-scale oil-on-canvas work painted in about