Cosima Wagner

Wife & muse of German composer Richard Wagner, born in 1837. Co-founder & director of the Bayreuth Festival.

Queen of Montparnasse

French artist’s model, literary muse, singer, actress, memoirist & painter born in 1901.

Mathilde Willink

Amsterdam society figure and fashion icon born in 1938. Married to Dutch painter Carel Willink.

Christiane von Goethe

German muse, advisor, longtime lover, & later wife of writer & statesman Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, born in 1765.

Camille Doncieux

Wife & muse of French painter Claude Monet born in 1847. Also the subject of paintings by Renoir & Manet.