TY - BOOK AU - Balzac,Honoré de AU - Wormeley,Katharine Prescott TI - The Hidden Masterpiece AV - PQ PY - 2004/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Biographical fiction KW - France -- Fiction KW - French fiction -- Translations into English KW - Painters -- Fiction KW - Poussin, Nicolas, 1594?-1665 -- Fiction N1 - 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; Original publication data not identified N2 - "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.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1553 ER -