The Portraitist : A Novel of Adelaide Labille-Guiard
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1647420970
ISBN-13
9781647420970
Publisher
She Writes Press
Imprint
She Writes Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 30th, 2022
Print length
296 Pages
Weight
396 grams
Dimensions
13.90 x 21.60 x 2.10 cms
Product Classification:
Historical fiction
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Based on a true story, this is the tale of Adela¯de 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, Adela¯de 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 Academie Royale at the same time as Adela¯de. When at last Adela¯de 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.
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