Chloe : revolution, art and intrigue in bohemian Paris / Katrina Kell.
Publication details: Sydey, NSW : Echo Publishing, an imprint of Bonnier Books UK, 2024.Description: 314 pages, 24 cmISBN:- 9781760688547
- Lefebvre, Jules, 1836-1911 -- Fiction
- Australian fiction
- Artists' models -- Fiction
- Interpersonal relations -- Fiction
- Women -- France -- Paris -- 19th century -- Fiction
- Portrait painting -- 19th century -- Fiction
- Models (Persons) -- Fiction
- France -- History -- Third Republic, 1870-1940 -- Fiction
- Australia -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Melbourne (Vic.) -- 20th century -- Fiction
- A823.4 23
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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New book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction - Historical | KEL | On reserve | 073164 | 1 |
"Taking the reader from Victoria's wild shipwreck coast to the artists' studios of revolutionary Paris and the bloody battlefields of Flanders, this sweeping novel reimagines the volatile history of the beautiful and enigmatic young woman immortalised in one of Australia's most iconic paintings. Created in Paris in 1875, Chloé, Jules Lefebvre's depiction of a naked water nymph, was brought to Melbourne's Young & Jackson Hotel in 1909, where it has hung ever since. In this passionate, luminous retelling, Katrina Kell seeks to unlock the riddle behind the girl on the canvas, known to history only as Marie. In doing so, she weaves the compelling story of an incandescent spirit - a woman with the strength to defy the boundaries of class and convention in order to survive, and an enduring power to influence the lives of others across time and distance." -- Back cover.
Tertiary/Undergraduate, General.