Sargent's Women: Four Lives Behind the Canvas
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“[Lucey] delivers the goods, disclosing the unhappy or colorful lives that Sargent sometimes hinted at but didn’t spell out.”—Boston Globe
In this seductive, multilayered biography, based on original letters and diaries, Donna M. Lucey illuminates four extraordinary women painted by the iconic high-society portraitist John Singer Sargent. With uncanny intuition, Sargent hinted at the mysteries and passions that unfolded in his subjects’ lives. These women inhabited a rarefied world of wealth and strict conventions—yet all of them did something unexpected, something shocking, to upend society’s rules.
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About the author
Donna M. Lucey is an author and scholar whose specialty is unconventional women of the Gilded Age. Her books include Sargent’s Women, the New York Times bestseller Archie and Amélie, I Dwell in Possibility, and the award-winning Photographing Montana. She lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.
