Eva
Gonzales, a French painter, was born in Paris into the family of the writer
Emmanuel Gonzalèz. In 1865, she began her professional training
and took lessons in drawing. In 1869, she met Edouard
Manet and became his student and model. She exhibited for the first
time at the Salon in 1870. Thereafter she submitted work every year to
the Salon. Until 1872, she was strongly influenced by Manet but later developed
her own, more personal style. Her watercolors with their bright colors
and soft forms achieved great success. During the Franco-Prussian War she
stayed in Dieppe. In 1879, she married a brother of the graphic artist
Henri Guérard. She died during childbirth, five days after Manet.