| Record Number |
760116 |
| ISBN |
9781410490636 |
| Author |
Smith, Dominic, 1971- author. |
| Title |
The last painting of Sara de Vos / Dominic Smith. |
| Edition |
Large print edition. |
| Publisher/Date |
Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, 2016. |
| ©2016 |
| Pagination etc. |
495 pages (large print) ; 23 cm. |
| Summary Note |
Amsterdam, 1631: Sara de Vos becomes the first woman to be admitted as a master painter to the city's Guild of St. Luke. Though women do not paint landscapes (they are generally restricted to indoor subjects), a wintry outdoor scene haunts Sara: She cannot shake the image of a young girl from a nearby village, standing alone beside a silver birch at dusk, staring out at a group of skaters on the frozen river below. Defying the expectations of her time, she decides to paint it. New York City, 1957: The only known surviving work of Sara de Vos, At the Edge of a Wood, hangs in the bedroom of a wealthy Manhattan lawyer, Marty de Groot, a descendant of the original owner. It is a beautiful but comfortless landscape. The lawyer's marriage is prominent but comfortless, too. When a struggling art history grad student, Ellie Shipley, agrees to forge the painting for a dubious art dealer, she finds herself entangled with its owner in ways no one could predict. Sydney, 2000: Now a celebrated art historian and curator, Ellie Shipley is mounting an exhibition in her field of specialization: female painters of the Dutch Golden Age. When it becomes apparent that both the original At the Edge of a Wood and her forgery are en route to her museum, the life she has carefully constructed threatens to unravel entirely and irrevocably. |
| Subject - Name |
Baalbergen, Sarah van, -- 1607- approximately 1638 -- Fiction |
| Subject |
Art -- Forgeries -- Fiction |
| Painting, Dutch -- 17th century -- Fiction |
| Art historians -- Fiction |
| Women artists -- Netherlands -- Fiction |
| Large type books. |
| Historical fiction. |
| Shelf Location |
LP SMIT |
