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Alias Olympia
A Woman's Search for Manet's Notorious Model & Her Own Desire

By Lipton, Eunice

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ISBN: 0801486092 Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr Published: May 1 1999 Pages: 181 Weight: 0.55lbs. Height: 8.75" Width: 5.75" Depth: 0.50" Language: English

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Eunice Lipton was a fledging art historian when she first became intrigued by Victorine Meurent, the nineteenth-century model who appeared in Edouard Manet's most famous paintings, only to vanish from history in a haze of degrading hearsay. But had this bold and spirited beauty really descended into prostitution, drunkenness, and early death—or did her life, hidden from history, take a different course altogether? Eunice Lipton's search for the answer combines the suspense of a detective story with the revelatory power of art, peeling off layers of lies to reveal startling truths about Victorine Meurent—and about Lipton herself.