# Fanny Claus

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**Fanny Claus** (25 July 1846 – 18 April 1877), also known as **Fanny Claus-Prins**, was a French [violinist](/source/Violin).[1][2]

## Biography

Fanny Claus was born on 25 July 1846 in [Besançon](/source/Besan%C3%A7on), France. She studied violin at the [Conservatoire de Paris](/source/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.[2][3]

Through her friend [Suzanne Manet](/source/Suzanne_Manet), pianist, wife of [Édouard Manet](/source/%C3%89douard_Manet), a French [modernist](/source/Modernism) painter, she met [Pierre -Ernest Prins](/source/Pierre_Prins), a French [painter](/source/Painting), [engraver](/source/Engraving) and [sculptor](/source/Sculpture), whom she married in 1869.[4] She is represented by Manet in *[The Balcony](/source/The_Balcony_(Manet))*, a [canvas](/source/Canvas) exhibited in 1869.[4]

She was the mother of Pierre Prins (1870 – 1945), a French [explorer](/source/Exploration) and [colonial administrator](/source/Colonialism).

She died on 18 April 1877 in Paris at the age of 31.

## References

1. Bogousslavsky, J. (18 October 2018). [*Neurological Disorders in Famous Artists - Part 4*](https://books.google.com/books?id=d8V1DwAAQBAJ). Basel, Switzerland: Karger Medical and Scientific Publishers. p. 69. ISBN 978-3-318-06394-3. Retrieved 16 July 2023.

1. Dolan, Therese (2013). [*Manet, Wagner, and the Musical Culture of Their Time*](https://books.google.com/books?id=yQbYRbspcc8C). London: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. p. 7. ISBN 978-1-409-44670-5. Retrieved 16 July 2023.

1. Thompson, Theresa (13 February 2013). ["Manet the master of portrait painting"](https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/10225215.manet-master-portrait-painting/). oxfordmail.co.uk. oxfordmail.co.uk. Retrieved 16 July 2023.

1. Distel, Anne (1974). [*Impressionism: A Centenary Exhibition, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, December 12, 1974– February 10, 1975*](https://books.google.com/books?id=dhc-U0t14vMC). New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. p. 120. ISBN 978-0-870-99097-7. Retrieved 16 July 2023.

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