page_title: Juliette Récamier
hierarchical_section_title: Juliette Récamier
caption_attribution_description: Juliette Récamier, femme d'esprit, célèbre pour sa beauté et muse du poète François-René de Chateaubriand (1768-1848).
context_page_description: Jeanne Françoise Julie Adélaïde Récamier, known as Juliette, was a French socialite, whose salon drew Parisians from the leading literary and political circles of the early 19th century. As an icon of neoclassicism, Récamier cultivated a public persona of herself as a great beauty and her fame quickly spread across Europe. She befriended many intellectuals, sat for the finest artists of the age, and spurned an offer of marriage from Prince Augustus of Prussia.
context_section_description: Jeanne Françoise Julie Adélaïde Récamier ([ʒan fʁɑ̃swaz ʒyli adela.id ʁekamje]; 3 December 1777 – 11 May 1849), known as Juliette ([ʒyljɛt]), was a French socialite, whose salon drew Parisians from the leading literary and political circles of the early 19th century. As an icon of neoclassicism, Récamier cultivated a public persona of herself as a great beauty and her fame quickly spread across Europe. She befriended many intellectuals, sat for the finest artists of the age, and spurned an offer of marriage from Prince Augustus of Prussia.
caption: Portrait of Juliette Récamier by François Gérard (1805, detail), Paris, Carnavalet Museum.
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