CONTENTS:

List of Illustrations
Preface
1. A Manet an Artist?
2. At Sea
3. The Doubling Begins
4. The Making of Paris
5. The Double-Edged Sword
6. A Turning Point
7. Venus Observed
8. "A Recidivist of the Monstrous and the Immoral"
9. An Old Passion, a New Friend, a Public Defender
10. "The Family, Beware of the Family!"
11. Friends and Models
12. The Lady and the Fan
13. A City Under Siege
14. "As Famous as Garibaldi"
15. Polichinelle
16. "Faire Vrai, Laisser Dire"
17. The Last Studio
18. Still Lifes
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index

AUTHOR:

Beth Archer Brombert is the author of the critically acclaimed biography Christina: Portraits of a Princess, the novel A Concert of Hells, and The Voice of Things, her edition and translation of Francis Ponge. Her travel pieces have appeared in the New York Times, the International Herald Tribune, and other publications.