The historian uncovers, and evokes, the model's.īohemian life in Paris: the cafe's and alleys of Montmartre the painters' studios and salons the squalor, scandal, and feverish creativity. Finally, their destinies become inextricably entangled. Every day she loses herself a little more in the other woman. Every step she takes to undo the erasure of Meurent's life brings her face-to-face with the boundaries of her own. As the pieces of an untold story begin to accumulate, something unforeseen happens to her. Streets of Paris, an American art historian sets out on an inquiry into the life of Victorine Meurent. 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. 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.
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