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In This Stylish Work Of Imaginative Nonfiction, Eunice Lipton Re-creates A Provocative Figure Out Of Nineteenth-century Art History, Victorine Meurent, The Mysterious Woman Who Modeled For Manet's Most Famous Paintings, Olympia And Dejeuner Sur L'herbe. Was Meurent, As Her Contemporaries Would Have Had Us Believe, Simply A Drunkard, A Prostitute? Or Was She - Whose Defiant Gaze From Manet's Canvas Provoked A Riot - An Accomplished Artist In Her Own Right? Through The. Streets Of Paris, An American Art Historian Sets Out On An Inquiry Into The Life Of Victorine Meurent. As The Pieces Of An Untold Story Begin To Accumulate, Something Unforeseen Happens To Her. Every Step She Takes To Undo The Erasure Of Meurent's Life Brings Her Face-to-face With The Boundaries Of Her Own. Every Day She Loses Herself A Little More In The Other Woman. Finally, Their Destinies Become Inextricably Entangled. The Historian Uncovers, And Evokes, The Model's. Bohemian Life In Paris: The Cafe's And Alleys Of Montmartre; The Painters' Studios And Salons; The Squalor, Scandal, And Feverish Creativity. And Victorine Takes The Historian On A Long Voyage Home, To The Bronx Of Her Childhood, To Her Immigrant Fath

Author

Lipton, Eunice

Publisher

New York: C. Scribner's Sons ; Toronto: Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; New York: Maxwell Macmillan International

Published

1992

Language

EN

ISBN

9780801468254

Subjects

Art, Memoir, Biography

Updated

2026-03-24