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![]() ![]() Remarkably, however, another product of Whistler’s moral waywardness, a son called Charles James Hanson (apparently born of another woman) was later brought up by Jo. ![]() Not surprisingly perhaps, Jo’s relationship with Whistler broke down after they both met again in London. Jo wa s one of the two women in sapphic pose that Courbet portrayed in Le Sommeil before offering her anatomy for the famous L’Origine du Monde (not a painting for the faint-hearted). Courbet spent much of his time a t the Brasserie Andler at 24, rue Hautefeuille (addre ss no longer exists), and no doubt Jo was dragged along there during her short stay. She turned up at Courbet’s studio at 32, rue Hautefeuille (6 th arrondissement, address no longer exists) for the first time in August 1866 and probably started an affair with him. Jo called on Courbet in Paris in 1866, at a time when Whistler had left Europe for Chile (possibly to avoid a possible round up of Fenian sympathizers, for Whistler was a friend of John O’Leary). Courbet became captivated by Hiffernan, and she quickly agreed to pose for him, resulting in Portrait de Jo, la belle Irlandaise. ![]() ![]() Jo and Whistler met the French painter Gustave Courbet In the seaside resort of Trouville in the autumn of 1865. ![]()
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