Bella Rosenfeld

Bella Rosenfeld Chagall (, ) (14 December 1889 – 2 September 1944) was a Jewish Russian writer born in Vitebsk, Russian Empire, nowadays Belarus, and the first wife of painter Marc Chagall. She was the subject of many of Chagall's paintings including ''Bella au col blanc (Bella with White Collar)'' in 1917, and appears posthumously in ''Bouquet près de la fenêtre'', painted in 1959–1960. Provided by Wikipedia