01831cam a22003853u 4500 1553 UtSlPG 20260610133046.0 m cr n 260607r2004||||utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d UtSlPG en iso639-1 PQ Balzac, Honoré de, 1799-1850 Chef d'oeuvre inconnu. English The Hidden Masterpiece Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2004 1 online resource : multiple file formats text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Chef-d%27%C5%93uvre_inconnu Release date is 2004-11-01 Produced by John Bickers, and Dagny, and David Widger "The Hidden Masterpiece" by Honoré de Balzac is a short story first published in 1831. Set in seventeenth-century Paris, it follows young painter Nicolas Poussin as he encounters the enigmatic master Frenhofer, who has spent ten years perfecting a secret painting of a beautiful courtesan. When Poussin offers his own lover as a model to help complete the work, the unveiling of Frenhofer's hidden canvas leads to an unexpected revelation about art, obsession, and the gap between vision and reality. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Original publication data not identified Biographical fiction France -- Fiction French fiction -- Translations into English Painters -- Fiction Poussin, Nicolas, 1594?-1665 -- Fiction Wormeley, Katharine Prescott, 1830-1908 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1553 43669 43669