Word: fiquet
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...power to stun that it exercised on the poet Rainer Maria Rilke at the Paris Salon in 1907. "The knowledge of its existence has transformed into an elation that I feel even in my sleep," Rilke wrote to his wife. The subject of the painting is Hortense Fiquet, Cézanne's model, who had a long secret relationship with him before becoming his wife. Another first lady, Jacqueline Kennedy, chose the watery landscape House on the Marne (1888-90) to hang in the Yellow Oval Room, used to greet heads of state visiting the White House...
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