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The Portraitist
Susanne Dunlap
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Belletristik / Hauptwerk vor 1945
Beschreibung
Based on a true story, this is the tale of Adélaïde Labille-Guiard’s fight to take her rightful place in the competitive art world of eighteenth-century Paris.
With a beautiful rival who’s better connected and better trained than she is, Adélaïde faces an uphill battle. Her love affair with her young instructor in oil painting gives rise to suspicions that he touches up her work, and her decision to make much-needed money by executing erotic pastels threatens to create as many problems as it solves. Meanwhile, her rival goes from strength to strength, becoming Marie Antoinette’s official portraitist and gaining entrance to the elite Académie Royale at the same time as Adélaïde.
When at last Adélaïde earns her own royal appointment and receives a massive commission from a member of the royal family, the timing couldn’t be worse: it’s 1789, and with the fall of the Bastille her world is turned upside down by political chaos and revolution. With danger around every corner in her beloved Paris, she must find a way adjust to the new order, carving out a life and a career all over again—and stay alive in the process.
Rezensionen
“Written with breathless drama, <i>The Portraitist</i> follows the rise of the gifted portraitist Adélaïde Labille-Guiard in Paris during the last years of the late eighteenth century. The novel is a luminous depiction of Paris and those terrible times seen through the astute, compassionate eyes of a woman who had to paint. Every bit of lace or royal carriage or bloody cobblestone is alive in the writing. The rain drumming on the skylight and a misbuttoned coat speak. Go to those streets with this book in your hand to follow her footsteps and those long-gone, turbulent times will come alive to you as if they were yesterday.” <br> <b>—Stephanie Cowell, award-winning author of <i>Claude and Camille</i></b> <br> <br> “Deeply researched and imagined, <i>The Portraitist</i> offers a fascinating and dramatic plunge into the world of a brilliant female artist struggling to make her mark before and during the turbulent and treacherous era of the French Revolution. I loved this novel.” <br> <b>—Sandra Gulland, internationally best-selling author of The Josephine B. Trilogy</b> <br> <br> “In <i>The Portraitist</i>, Susanne Dunlap skillfully paints a portrait of a woman struggling to make her way in a man'
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Empowering stories of historical, 20th century woman artist, Paris and the French Revolution, Académie Royale de Peinture et Sculpture, Strong female protagonist, Oil painting, Women and the arts, Oil portraits, Pastel portraits, Jacques-Louis David, Guillotine