{"id":18244,"date":"2023-05-18T10:53:56","date_gmt":"2023-05-18T14:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/?page_id=18244"},"modified":"2023-06-06T10:09:28","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T14:09:28","slug":"chet-baker-and-liliane-rovere-biography","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/exhibitions\/chet-baker-and-liliane-rovere-biography\/","title":{"rendered":"Chet Baker and Liliane Rov\u00e9re Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-black-color has-text-color\">Chet Baker (American, 1929-1988) and Liliane Rov\u00e9re (French, b. 1933)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Chet Baker (American, 1929-1988); Liliane Rov\u00e9re (French, b. 1933)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>William Claxton captures jazz musician Baker\u2019s and actor Rov\u00e9re\u2019s love affair in the 1950s. Rov\u00e9re later credited their split to Baker not knowing what to do with the talent he possessed. The \u201cPrince of Jazz,\u201d as many called him, was hindered in his career due to serial involvement in drugs and petty crime. While Rov\u00e9re would find success in her later years, Baker died in the Netherlands in a drug-related accident in 1988. While their lives went in different directions following their relationship, the photograph from Claxton depicts their passion with Rov\u00e9re looking confidently at the camera and Baker hugging her waist while sitting with his trumpet in front of him. This image seems both natural and posed at the same time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"712\" height=\"900\" data-id=\"17512\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/03\/Chet-Baker-and-Lilliane-1-712x900.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/03\/Chet-Baker-and-Lilliane-1-712x900.webp 712w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/03\/Chet-Baker-and-Lilliane-1-237x300.webp 237w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/03\/Chet-Baker-and-Lilliane-1-768x970.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/03\/Chet-Baker-and-Lilliane-1-1216x1536.webp 1216w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/03\/Chet-Baker-and-Lilliane-1-497x628.jpg 497w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/03\/Chet-Baker-and-Lilliane-1.webp 1519w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 712px) 100vw, 712px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">William Claxton,<em> Chet Baker and Lillian Rov\u00e8re<\/em>, ca. 1955 (printed 1987), gelatin silver print, 10 1\/8 x 8 1\/8 in., Gift of Robert Flynn Johnson in memory of Dr. Robert Andrew Johnson, class of &#8217;36, 2019.6.12<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\" data-id=\"14895\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2021\/01\/blank-image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14895\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\" data-id=\"14895\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2021\/01\/blank-image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14895\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chet Baker (American, 1929-1988) and Liliane Rov\u00e9re (French, b. 1933) Chet Baker&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1626,"featured_media":0,"parent":1152,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_dimp_site_id":"","_dimp_override_contact":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-18244","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1626"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18244"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19123,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18244\/revisions\/19123"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}