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Olympe Pélissier was a French artists' model and courtesan and the second wife of the Italian composer Gioachino Rossini. She sat for Vernet for his painting of Judith and Holofernes. Honoré de Balzac described her as "the most beautiful courtesan in Paris".
In 1858, just two years before Haussmann absorbed the village into his plans for a redesigned greater Paris, Rossini purchased a parcel of land for his own summer villa. To Olympe, it was as clear an indication as any that there was now some hope for the future.
It is not clear when Rossini and Olympe Pélissier first met. Whenever that was, the relationship itself appears to have taken root in 1832. A letter to Honoré de Balzac in January invited him to supper in the company of Rossini.
The first symptoms of a nervous breakdown became manifest in 1832, which hit him hard; Olympe Pélissier, to whom he was now attached, cared for him like a mother. His married her on 16 August 1846. He published his “Soirées Musicales” – composed between 1830 and 1835 – in 1835, along with other short works.
He remarried Olympe Pélissier and composed a Stabat Mater, commissioned by a Spanish prelate, as well as a number of occasional pieces, and numerous chamber music works, collected in a series of books entitled Péchés de vieillesse, often tinged with humor.
Olympe Pélissier (née Olympe Louise Alexandrine Descuilliers 1 à Paris le 9 mai 1799 et morte le 22 mars 1878 à Paris) était le modèle du peintre Horace Vernet.
