Madeleine Lemaire

{{Short description|French painter}}

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| name = Madeleine Lemaire

| image = Félix Nadar - Madeleine Lemaire.jpg

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| caption = Detail of the portrait of Madeleine Lemaire by Félix Nadar (1891)

| birth_name = Madeleine Jeanne Coll

| birth_date = {{Birth date text|1845}}

| birth_place = Les Arcs, Var, France

| death_date = {{death date and age|1928|4|8|1845|mf=y}}

| death_place = Paris, France

| nationality = French

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| field = Painting

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Madeleine Lemaire, née Coll (1845 – 8 April 1928), was a French painter who specialized in elegant genre works and flowers.{{cite book|last=Ellison|first=David|title=A Reader's Guide to Proust's 'In Search of Lost Time'|year=2010|publisher=Cambridge University Press|location=Cambridge, England|isbn=978-0-521-72006-9|page=12|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RBv3wE6l-RYC&q=%22Madeleine+Lemaire%22&pg=PA12}} Robert de Montesquiou said she was The Empress of the Roses. She introduced Marcel Proust and Reynaldo Hahn to the Parisian salons of the aristocracy.{{cite book|last=Bales|first=Richard|title=The Cambridge companion to Proust|year=2001|publisher=Cambridge University Press|location=Cambridge, England|isbn=978-0-521-66961-0|page=10|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3wUJrpuzobwC&q=%22Madeleine+Lemaire%22&pg=PA30}} She herself held a salon where she received high society in her hôtel particulier on the Rue de Monceau.

Lemaire exhibited her work at the Palace of Fine Arts and The Woman's Building at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois.{{cite web |last1=Nichols |first1=K. L. |title=Women's Art at the World's Columbian Fair & Exposition, Chicago 1893| url=http://arcadiasystems.org/academia/cassatt11c.html#lemaire|accessdate=26 July 2018}}

George Painter stated in his book Marcel Proust she is one of the models of Proust's Madame Verdurin (In Search of Lost Time).