Rebecca Glenn
ASIN: B00WQJ72H2
Publisher: Zinerva Publishing, LLC
Pages: 335
"Rebecca Glenn handles (the story) smoothly and adroitly, imbuing all her characters but especially Lisette with believably realized personalities and giving a very vivid sense of the 18th century art world. I finished it eagerly looking forward to the next volume in the series." - Review by the Historical Novel SocietyIndependent and beautiful, Élisabeth Vigée, affectionately called Lisette by friends and family, has progressed in the art of oil painting faster than anyone could have anticipated. Having received instruction from her beloved father, Louis Vigée, a prominent Parisian guild painter, Lisette possesses all the qualities of a brilliant young painter, but is saddled with a singular disadvantage – being a woman. Undeterred, Lisette believes that she can become a painter in Paris. Approaching a marriageable age, her parents have other plans for Lisette, ones that don’t include ...