An Undying Love: "Around Her"; 1945, by Marc Chagall (1887 - 1985); Russian-French artist of Belarusian Jewish artist. Bella Rosenfeld met Marc Chagall in the summer of 1909 on a visit to St. Petersburg. Marc was an aspiring artist, in the throes of creating his now famous oeuvre. Bella, the daughter of a successful jeweller, was in the midst of her studies and acquiring a taste for writing. Their meeting was the beginning of an artist-muse relationship that would inspire some of Chagall's best work.