Jeanne Samary

{{Short description|French actress}}

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| image = Jeanne_Samary.jpg

| alt = Photograph of Jeanne Samary by the photographer known as Nadar, circa 1877

| caption = Photograph by Nadar, c. 1877

| birth_name = Léontine Pauline Jeanne Samary

| birth_date = {{birth date|1857|03|04|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Neuilly-sur-Seine, France

| death_date = {{death date and age|1890|09|18|1857|03|04|df=yes}}

| death_place = Paris, France

| burial_place = Passy Cemetery

| occupation = Actor, model

| years_active = 1874–1890

| employer = Comédie-Française

| spouse = Paul Lagarde {{small|(1882–1890, her death)}}

| relatives = {{unbulleted list

|Augustine Brohan {{small|(aunt)}}

|Madeleine Brohan {{small|(aunt)}}

|Susanne Brohan {{small|(grandmother)}}

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Jeanne Samary (4 March 1857 as Léontine Pauline Jeanne Samary in Neuilly-sur-Seine – 18 September 1890 in Paris) was a French actress at the Comédie-Française and a model for Auguste Renoir, including for Renoir's 1881 painting, Luncheon of the Boating Party.

Between the years 1871–1874, Jeanne Samary attended the Paris drama school and passed with distinction. In 1874, she became a member of the Comédie-Française and debuted on 24 August 1874 as Dorine in Tartuffe by Molière. Jeanne Samary excelled in numerous roles in the comedies, but also in parts of Édouard Pailleron (L'Étincelle; La Monde ou l'on s'ennuie).

Renoir painted Samary around a dozen times between the years 1877–1881; Louise Abbéma painted her twice.

In 1880,https://archives.paris.fr/s/4/etat-civil-actes/?1880, Mariages, 09, V4E 3582, 9 November 1880, no. 1006, Lagarde et Samary, the ceremony took place Wednesday, 10 November at the Église de la Trinité, Paris, see Jules Prével, "Courrier des Théatres," Le Figaro, 8 November 1880, p. 2. she married Paul Lagarde, with whom she had three children.{{cite book |last1=Jiminez |first1=Jill Berk |title=Dictionary of Artists' Models |date=2013 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-135-95921-0 |pages=487–488 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8vxXAQAAQBAJ&dq=%22renoir%22+%22Jeanne+Samary%22&pg=PA487 |language=en}} Shortly before her death she wrote a children's book titled Les gourmandises de Charlotte for their children. She died in 1890 of typhoid fever, and was buried in the Passy Cemetery.

File:Jeanne Samary by Mulnier.jpg

File:Les Contemporains N 23 Jeanne Samary.jpg

File:The Soviet Union 1970 CPA 3961 stamp ('The Actress Jeane Samary' (Pierre-Auguste Renoir)).png

File:Renoir - Portrait de Jeanne Samary, circa 1879-1880.jpg

File:LouiseAbbemaJeanneSamary.JPG|Portrait of Jeanne Samary, by Louise Abbéma (ca. 1880)

File:Jeanna Samary-Renoir.png|Portrait of Jeanne Samary by Renoir (1878), Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia

File:Jeanne-Lagarde.jpg|Samary's grave in Passy Cemetery

File:Renoir portrait of Jeanne Samary 1877.jpg|alt=Renoir portrait of Jeanne Samary 1877|Renoir portrait of Jeanne Samary 1877