Alias Olympia: A Womans Search For Manets Notorious Model & Her Own Desire; Author: Lipton, Eunice; Paperback (C Format)

Author: Lipton, Eunice
Paperback (C Format)
192 pages
Published: June 1999
Cornell University Press
ISBN: 0801486092

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, takea 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 ayers of lies to reveal startling truths about Victorine Meurent -- and about Lipton herself.A woman's search for Manet's notorious model and her own desire.Lipton was a fledging art historian when she first became intrigued by Victorine Meurent, the model who appeared in Manet's most famous paintings only to vanish into a haze of degrading hearsay. Her text explores Meurent's life and the rumours of prostitution, drunkenness and early death.