Emmanuela Potocka by Nadar
Countess Emanuela Potocka , born Princess Emanuela Pignatelli di Cerchiara (1852–1930), was an Italian-Polish noblewoman and fashionable salonière in Paris during the 19th century.
She was a descendant of a high noble family from Italy. She married the Polish Count Potocki and established herself at the Hôtel Potocki in the 8th arrondissement of Paris . Her salon became fashionable and was visited and written about by Proust , Maupassant , Barrès , Bourget , Robert de Montesquiou , Reynaldo Hahn , Widor and others. Jean Béraud also painted her salon.
Macchabées 1889
Further reading
Claude Leibenson. La comtesse Potocka. Une égérie de la Belle Époque. Biographie . Paris, Lacurne, 2016, 528 pages. (ISBN 9782356030184 ).
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