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Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 470 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A richly told biography of Suzanne Valadon, the illegitimate daughter of a provincial linen maid who became famous as a model for the Impressionists and later as a painter in her own right. Catherine Hewitt tells the remarkable tale of an ambitious, headstrong woman fighting to find a professional voice in a male-dominated world.
Author
Publisher
Icon Books Ltd
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xi, 483 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Rosa Bonheur was the very antithesis of the feminine ideal of 19th-century society. She was educated, she shunned traditional 'womanly' pursuits, she rejected marriage - and she wore trousers. But the society whose rules she spurned accepted her as one of their own, because of her genius for painting animals. She shared an intimate relationship with the eccentric, self-styled inventor Nathalie Micas, who nurtured the artist like a wife. Together Rosa,...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
358 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plate : illustrations (some color), map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Comtesse Valtesse de la Bigne was a celebrated nineteenth-century Parisian courtesan. She was painted by Manet and inspired Emile Zola, who immortalized her in his scandalous novel Nana. Her rumored affairs with Napoleon III and the future Edward VII kept gossip columns full. But her glamorous existence hid a dark secret: she was no Comtesse. She was born into abject poverty, raised on a squalid Paris backstreet; the lowest of the low. Yet she transformed...
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