The Last Painting of Sara De Vos
Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, 2016.
Format: Large Print
Edition: Large print edition.
Description: 495 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Amsterdam, 1631: Sara de Vos, the first female master painter in the Guild of St. Luke, defies convention by painting a haunting landscape. New York City, 1957: Her only known surviving work, At the Edge of a Wood hangs in the bedroom of a wealthy lawyer descended from the original owner. Ellie Shipley, a struggling art history student, paints a forgery for an art dealer. Sydney, 2000: Now a celebrated art historian and curator, Ellie mounts an exhibit of female Dutch painters and finds that both versions are en route to her museum.
Series: Thorndike Press large print basic
Subjects:
Baalbergen, Sarah van, 1607- approximately 1638 -- Fiction.
Women artists -- Netherlands -- Fiction.
Painting, Dutch -- 17th century -- Fiction.
Art -- Forgeries -- Fiction.
Art historians -- Fiction.
Large type books.
Baalbergen, Sarah van, 1607- approximately 1638 -- Fiction.
Women artists -- Netherlands -- Fiction.
Painting, Dutch -- 17th century -- Fiction.
Art -- Forgeries -- Fiction.
Art historians -- Fiction.
Large type books.
ISBN:
9781410490636 (hardcover : large print)
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 491-492).