Alias Olympia

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.

• | Author: Eunice Lipton
• | Publisher: Cornell University Press
• | Publication Date: Feb 15, 1999
• | Number of Pages: 192 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0801486092
• | ISBN-13: 9780801486098