TY  - BOOK
AU  - Balzac,Honoré de
TI  - The Unknown Masterpiece: 1845
AV  - PQ 
PY  - 2007///
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 2007-10-17; Produced by David Widger; Original publication data not identified
N2  - "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.)
UR  - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/23060
ER  -