Balzac, Honoré de,  1799-1850 <br/><br/>
The Unknown Masterpiece :  1845 

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<br/><br/> Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Chef-d%27%C5%93uvre_inconnu  Release date is 2007-10-17 
<br/><br/>Produced by David Widger  Produced by David Widger 
<br/><br/> "The Unknown Masterpiece" by Honoré de Balzac is a short story first published in 1831. Set in seventeenth-century Paris, it follows three painters: the young unknown Nicolas Poussin, the established Porbus, and the enigmatic master Frenhofer. For ten years, Frenhofer has labored obsessively on a secret painting he believes will be his greatest triumph. When Poussin offers his beautiful lover as a model, the completion draws near—but what will the finished work reveal? A profound meditation on artistic perfection and obsession. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Biographical fiction France -- Fiction French fiction -- Translations into English Painters -- Fiction Poussin, Nicolas, 1594?-1665 -- Fiction 
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