[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"$f2rt69srbn696y":3},{"_id":4,"audioState":5,"author":6,"cards":9,"categories":34,"kind":36,"lang":37,"slug":38,"source":39,"stats":42,"subtitle":45,"tags":46,"title":40,"publishedAt":51,"renderer":37},"6acd58816adc0451c63d4756","queued",{"handle":7,"displayName":8},"spots","Spots",[10,16,22,28],{"headline":11,"body":12,"caption":13,"imageUrl":14,"images":15},"Artists ought never to marry, says a happily married painter","A painter, content with wife and child, warns his poet friend off marriage: artists live apart from life and need a rare, tactful woman almost impossible to find. He cites a sculptor who fled his family and the musician Dargenty, whose wife chats over his mazurkas. He hands over a manuscript of true cases. The first is Heurtebise, a fiery poet whose shopgirl wife's chatter and parasite guests drain his talent, fortune and life, after which she marries the linen-drapers Aubertot and Fajon.","PROLOGUE.","\u002Fapi\u002Fmedia\u002Fposts\u002Fartists-wives-bc0c5ccd\u002F0.webp",{"local":14},{"headline":17,"body":18,"caption":19,"imageUrl":20,"images":21},"The wrong partner turns triumph into humiliation at home","A poet marries Maria Assunta, a Roman beauty glimpsed catching eels in the Tiber, and finds in Paris a coarse, raging woman before whom he trembles over a broken wine bottle, begging a guest to say, \"Say it's you.\" Two opera stars marry onstage, until the husband's jealousy of his wife's greater voice ends in his own hired hisses. A bourgeois wife cannot fathom why her poet tore up the government post she secured him. Another poet tries to educate a statue-like provincial bride and fails.","A COUPLE OF SINGERS. → ASSAULT WITH VIOLENCE.","\u002Fapi\u002Fmedia\u002Fposts\u002Fartists-wives-bc0c5ccd\u002F1.webp",{"local":20},{"headline":23,"body":24,"caption":25,"imageUrl":26,"images":27},"Every household bends the artist toward or away from work","A wife stages a quarrel before witnesses to win a legal separation, but ends up slapping her patient husband. The sculptor Simaise chisels potboilers nonstop to fund a hammock-bound wife and four ball-going daughters whose chaotic poverty scares off every suitor, even a dancing lawyer in Normandy. A jealous bride banishes her sculptor husband's model, then poses herself. A great composer's widow remarries a timid admirer and rules him through her dead husband's fame and love letters.","BOHEMIA AT HOME. → THE DECEIVER.","\u002Fapi\u002Fmedia\u002Fposts\u002Fartists-wives-bc0c5ccd\u002F2.webp",{"local":26},{"headline":29,"body":30,"caption":31,"imageUrl":32,"images":33},"Some wives are the hidden author of the husband's life","A lover discovers on his mistress's deathbed that five years of stories, including a rabbi uncle and music pupils, were lies, and she dies without revealing her name. The poet d'Athis is maneuvered by his model-mistress Irma Salle, through their son Robert, into making her a Comtesse, only for the child to die. The sculptor Guillardin dreams his new Academy coat mocks him: his honours, fortune and seat were bought by his beautiful wife's favours, not his talent.","THE COMTESSE IRMA. → That morning was the dawn of a glorious…","\u002Fapi\u002Fmedia\u002Fposts\u002Fartists-wives-bc0c5ccd\u002F3.webp",{"local":32},[35],"Novels","book",null,"artists-wives-bc0c5ccd",{"name":40,"url":41},"Artists' Wives","\u002Fbooks\u002F22522",{"completions":43,"depthSum":43,"likes":43,"opens":43,"saves":43,"shares":43,"skips":43,"views":44},0,20,"A dozen sharp case studies of how marriage can feed an artist's work or quietly strangle it.",[47,48,49,50],"marriage","artists","paris","satire","2026-10-13T04:30:54.489Z"]