{{Short description| French violinist (1846– 1877)}} thumb| Fanny Claus
'''Fanny Claus''' (25 July 1846 – 18 April 1877), also known as '''Fanny Claus-Prins''', was a French violinist.<ref>{{cite book |last= Bogousslavsky|first= J. |date= 18 October 2018|title= Neurological Disorders in Famous Artists - Part 4|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=d8V1DwAAQBAJ|access-date= 16 July 2023|location= Basel, Switzerland|publisher= Karger Medical and Scientific Publishers | page=69| isbn=978-3-318-06394-3}}</ref><ref name="auto1">{{cite book |last= Dolan|first= Therese|year = 2013|title= Manet, Wagner, and the Musical Culture of Their Time|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=yQbYRbspcc8C|access-date= 16 July 2023|location= London |publisher= Ashgate Publishing, Ltd | page=7| isbn=978-1-409-44670-5}}</ref>
==Biography== Fanny Claus was born on 25 July 1846 in Besançon, France. She studied violin at the Conservatoire de Paris, where she graduated in 1863. In 1866, she founded the first all-women string quartet musical group, known as Sainte-Cécile quartet.<ref name="auto1"/><ref>{{cite news |last1=Thompson |first1=Theresa|title=Manet the master of portrait painting |url=https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/10225215.manet-master-portrait-painting/ |access-date=16 July 2023|agency=oxfordmail.co.uk|publisher=oxfordmail.co.uk|date=13 February 2013}}</ref>
Through her friend Suzanne Manet, pianist, wife of Édouard Manet, a French modernist painter, she met Pierre -Ernest Prins, a French painter, engraver and sculptor, whom she married in 1869.<ref name="auto">{{cite book|last= Distel|first= Anne|year = 1974|title= Impressionism: A Centenary Exhibition, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, December 12, 1974– February 10, 1975|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=dhc-U0t14vMC|access-date= 16 July 2023|location= New York |publisher= Metropolitan Museum of Art|page=120|isbn=978-0-870-99097-7}}</ref> She is represented by Manet in ''The Balcony'', a canvas exhibited in 1869.<ref name="auto"/>
She was the mother of Pierre Prins (1870 – 1945), a French explorer and colonial administrator.
She died on 18 April 1877 in Paris at the age of 31.
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