Diana Knight

• Introduction From Sculpture to Paiting 1. S/Z, Sarrasine and Le Chef-d'œuvre inconnu From Painting to Marriage 2. La Bourse 3. La Vendetta 4. La Maison du chat-qui-pelote From Model to Artist 5. La Rabouilleuse 6. The Joseph Bridau Cycle 7. Afterword

Are painting and sculpture equally liable to distort lived experience, or is sculpture capable of securing a closer approximation of material truth? This is just one of the intriguing questions suggested by Balzac and the Model of Painting. -- caa.reviews caa.reviews Carefully focused, tightly written, and well-presented, this volume of close readings of Balzac's artist stories is a solid and valuable addition to the Research Monographs in the Legenda series. -- Nineteenth-Century French Studies Nineteenth-Century French Studies

Diana Knight

• Introduction From Sculpture to Paiting 1. S/Z, Sarrasine and Le Chef-d'œuvre inconnu From Painting to Marriage 2. La Bourse 3. La Vendetta 4. La Maison du chat-qui-pelote From Model to Artist 5. La Rabouilleuse 6. The Joseph Bridau Cycle 7. Afterword

Are painting and sculpture equally liable to distort lived experience, or is sculpture capable of securing a closer approximation of material truth? This is just one of the intriguing questions suggested by Balzac and the Model of Painting. -- caa.reviews caa.reviews Carefully focused, tightly written, and well-presented, this volume of close readings of Balzac's artist stories is a solid and valuable addition to the Research Monographs in the Legenda series. -- Nineteenth-Century French Studies Nineteenth-Century French Studies

Diana Knight

• Introduction From Sculpture to Paiting 1. S/Z, Sarrasine and Le Chef-d'œuvre inconnu From Painting to Marriage 2. La Bourse 3. La Vendetta 4. La Maison du chat-qui-pelote From Model to Artist 5. La Rabouilleuse 6. The Joseph Bridau Cycle 7. Afterword

Are painting and sculpture equally liable to distort lived experience, or is sculpture capable of securing a closer approximation of material truth? This is just one of the intriguing questions suggested by Balzac and the Model of Painting. -- caa.reviews caa.reviews Carefully focused, tightly written, and well-presented, this volume of close readings of Balzac's artist stories is a solid and valuable addition to the Research Monographs in the Legenda series. -- Nineteenth-Century French Studies Nineteenth-Century French Studies