Jeanne Hébuterne, a French painter, was born into a bourgeois family. Very close to her brother André, who would also become an artist, she developed a talent for drawing at an early age. In 1914, her family moved to Paris, and Jeanne enrolled at the Académie Colarossi, where she refined her skills as a draftsman and painter. Her friends nicknamed her "Coconut" because of her very pale skin, framed by dark hair.

In 1917, at the age of 19, she met the Italian painter Amedeo Modigliani, who was much older than her. Despite her family's opposition, she moved into Modigliani's studio and followed him in his bohemian lifestyle. She became his muse, model, and companion. Influenced by modern art, Jeanne's artistic production mainly featured self-portraits, views from her window, and portraits of artist friends.

In 1918, the couple moved to Nice, where their daughter, Jeanne, was born in 1919. Suffering from tuberculosis and alcoholism, Modigliani's health deteriorated rapidly, and he died on January 24, 1920. Devastated and eight months pregnant with their second child, Jeanne committed suicide the following day by jumping from the fifth floor of her parents' apartment at the age of 22.

This tragic fate made Jeanne Hébuterne an emblematic figure of the doomed couple she formed with Modigliani. Long reduced to the role of a muse, her work only began to gain recognition in 1992, following the rediscovery of her paintings, which had been preserved by her brother André until his death.