Archive Find: A New Photograph of Jeanne Duval

Dear friends,

I am so pleased to share with you the first Archive Find of A Writer's Notebook. 

In the process of searching for the identity of one of Édouard Manet's favorite models, a Black woman known as "Laure" who appears in Olympia, I often found myself stumbling over mentions of another famous Black model from the 19th century art world, Jeanne Duv…