CALVÉ, Emma

Description:
Life-size, full-length standing, in a green-blue dress, wearing an opera cloak of white and gold with a sable edge, clutching American Beauty roses.

Location:
Present Whereabouts Unknown.

Bibliography:
Mail and Express, New York, Thursday evening, April 19, 1894
New York Commercial Advertiser, April 19, 1894
New York Commercial Advertiser, April 21, 1894
Mail and Express, New York, April 21, 1894
New York Herald, April 22, 1894
New York Evening Telegram, April 23, 1894
New York Evening Telegram, April 24, 1894
New York Tribune, April 24, 1894
New York Commercial Advertiser, April 24, 1894
Mail and Express, New York, April 24, 1894
New York Herald, April 24, 1894
Home Journal, New York, April 25, 1894
New York Commercial Advertiser, April 25, 1894
New York Tribune, April 25, 1894
Mail and Express, New York, Thursday evening, April 26, 1894
Town Topics, New York, April 26, 1894
New York Press, April 26, 1894

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Calvé (actually Rose Emma Calvet) was born on 15 August 1858 in Decazeville, Aveyron, was a French operatic soprano and probably the most famous French female opera singer of the Belle Epoque. She first sang Carmen at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, in the autumn of 1893. She worked in New York at the Met from 1893-1904, and at the Metropolitan Opera Company 1907-1908. She then retired, but gave concerts until 1918. In March 1910 she married Mr. A. Gaspari. Her home was Chateau de Cabrieres, Aguessac, Avevron, France. She died in Montpellier on 6 January 1942.

Bibliography:

A. Gallus, Emma Calvé: Her Artistic Life, New York, 1897

The signed photograph of the sitter inscribed to the artist.

Painted in late 1893 or early 1894. Muller-Ury held a reception at his studio at 3pm on April 24th, 1894, for invited guests to view the picture.  Calvé signed a Carte de Visite of herself in day dress from the Sarony studio, 87 Union Square, New York, which she gave to the artist inscribed “En souvenir du joli portrait de Monsieur Muller-Ury, souvenir amical, Emma Calvé 1894”.